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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