OOP: Thoughts and Questions - Lily's Eyes
Rach
rachrobins at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 22 22:27:54 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 61556
I think Neville's plant will become important later. It was mentioned
too many times to be insignificant. We'll just have to wait and see.
I have a question also - Why wasn't Bellatrix Lestrange mad after
spending all those years in Azkaban? I remember Sirius in PoA (sorry
I don't have the books with me to actually reference) said "most go
mad in the end" or something similar. Is it possible that the
dementors are able to restore some of what they have sucked out of
their victims?
I now have a more solid theory on Lily and Harry's eyes. We know
there have been numerous references Harry having his mother's green
eyes. After reading OotP over the weekend (only once so far, so sorry
that this is not fully referenced) I have decided that Lily's eyes do
not possess a conventional form of magic as was suspected in the past
but are more a reflection on her character.
They say the eyes are a window into the soul. In the scene where
Harry enters Snape's memory in the Pensieve Lily shows herself to be
a compassionate, empathic person. She did not like Snape, and was not
protecting him as a friend, but out of empathy and common decency.
At the end of the book when Dumbledore is explaining to Harry about
the prophecy and the Department of Mysteries, he mentions a quality
that Harry has, that Voldemort will never possess - heart. So when a
reference is made to Harry having Lily's eyes, I am starting to
believe that this is a reflection on the qualities she possessed -
namely compassion which comes from the heart, rather than a
conventional magical talent.
I found the exploration of James' character very interesting. An
argument between Snape and Harry in an earlier book (PoA I think)
kept running through my mind while reading the scene in the Pensieve -
"My Dad didn't strut" I remember Harry yelling. It looks like he did
however, and I think that by exposing the most obvious flaw in James'
character (conceit) Harry may grow to fully appreciate the gift his
mother has given him - compassion.
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, JessaDrow at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/22/03 5:32:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> amani at c... writes:
>
> > 2) I would've liked an actual explanation as to how Harry got the
> > Marauder's Map back. I suppose Dumbledore must've given it to him.
> >
>
> I have a feeling JKR might have forgot that Harry never recieved
the map
> back, I also was quite suprised when he pulled it out without any
explainations.
>
>
> 11) I'm loving both Neville and Ginny's development. They're both
coming into
> their own very nicely.
>
> I also was quite pleased that Ginny and especially Neville were
being used
> more. Maybe that'll stop the crys of Neville not belonging on
Gryffindor. Here
> is to seeing more of Neville. I only wish that they did more with
that plant of
> his, I had a feeling it would be significant some how, and was
disappointed.
>
> 12) It's nice to see that even though McGonogall thinks Trelawney's
a total
> fraud, she bands with her against Umbridge. God, I hated Umbridge.
>
> Oh gods, I really hated her! I wanted to shake Harry for not going
to
> McGonogall or Dumbledore about that quill of hers.
>
> ~faith
>
>
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