[HPforGrownups] Re: JP -v- JKR

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No: HPFGUIDX 61191

In a message dated 6/19/2003 4:10:04 PM Central Standard Time, 
brookeshanks at mugglenet.com writes:

> 
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, digger <altered.earth at n...> 
> wrote:
> >GulPlum wrote:
> >>*THAT* interview on TV has just finished.
> >>
> >>There was nothing mind-shatteringly novel to be found out about 
> what's
> >>going to happen next, but if you want to know what JKR has to say 
> about
> >>fame, fortune and the background to the 3-year delay, here's an 
> MP3 file of
> >>the whole thing from beginning to end (all 29 minutes or over 2.5 
> MB of it):
> >>
> >>http://plum.cream.org/HP/misc/index.htm
> >>
> >>I'm working on a transcript for the bandwidth-limited, which 
> should be up
> >>in a couple of hours, if all goes well.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Well I'm convinced after that interview that Harry won't survive at 
> the 
> >end of Book 7. Maybe he can't kill Voldemort without dying himself?
> >So that would be good annihilating evil; they cancel each other out.
> >
> >Ho Hum, twiddle my thumb, til postie arrives.
> >
> >digger
> 
> 
> 
> I know!  After JKR said that I freaked out!  I mean, I don't expect a 
> completely happy ending... I know some of the storylines will have 
> sad outcomes.  It could very well be that Harry is not destined to 
> live past his seventh year... 


Every time this theory gets thrown around I can't help but think of The Lion, 
The Witch and The Wardrobe and the 'magic from beyond the dawn of time'. It 
seems to me that one of the themes that keeps being presented in the books thus 
far is that it was at least partially, if not entirely, Lily's love for Harry 
that protected him from Voldemort's curse. It's a deeper magic than 
Voldemort, having a complete absence of love would be able to understand, but of course 
it's a magic that Dumbledore WOULD understand. At any rate, it seems to me 
unlikely that if THIS is the theme, that Harry will die in the end. 

I mean, consider, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Aslan is killed by 
the White Witch, but he raises again because the White witch understands the 
magic that goes back to the dawn of time, but if she were to look further than 
that she'd understand that if an innocent willingly gives their life, then the 
table cracks and time works backwards. This deeper magic, seems to be hinted 
at in Lily's sacrifice for Harry. I may be completely wrong, but I just don't 
see Harry dying. I think it'd be a rather anti-climatic ending personally, but 
I suppose who knows what she could pull out in the next two books. 

~Sabrina~

'I say to you all, once again- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we 
are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's 
gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by 
showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit 
and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are 
open.' 
                                             ~Harry Potter and the Goblet of 
Fire~


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