OOP: THEME, New Characters, Harry/Snape

[Antbee78]

No: HPFGUIDX 61715

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "professor_monkshood" 
<professor_monkshood at y...> wrote:
> Repost from the OTChatter
> 
> Big Death
> I was prepared for it because the manner JKR put it in her 
> interview. I've always thought that Hagrid's death would be less 
> tramatizing than this big death and it would be the cruelest thing 
> possible and therefore, is the last thing she would do. I was wrong 
> and there you go, she did it.
> 
> Theme: Death of father figures 
> 
> I thought JKR has destroyed all the father figures in Harry's life 
> rather throughoutly in this book: Dumbledore turns out to be great 
> but fallible, The Big physical DEATH, and the worst one, James -- 
> the spiritual guide, the perfect idol, the palace of everything 
> Harry wants to be, smashed down completely. JKR has destroyed that 
> image now.

In light of all the father/son conflict in book five, but that has 
also been there in some way in books two through four, I was 
wondering if anyone had reconsidered Lissa B's theory on Harry being 
Voldemort's father. I know it has a lot of holes in it, and may seem 
too reminiscent of "Star Wars" and "The Terminator," but JKR seems to 
be hitting our heads over and over again with father/son themes for 
some reason. 

Lissa B's speculation can be found in posts: 57319, 57324, 57372, 
57387, 57430, and 57445.