OOP: Predicting the end...and the beginning...and the end...ad naseum

[cornflower_o_shea]

No: HPFGUIDX 62930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zenchela" <zenchela at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Lynn" 
> <gregorylynn at a...> wrote:
> > Of the series that is.
> > 
> > I have two thoughts which may or may not be contradictory.
> > 
> > What if Harry *chooses* to lose and somehow by this choice 
wins?  
> <snip>  We have to figure the power that Harry has that Voldemort 
> doesn't is love or something thereabouts.  Compassion is a part of 
> the whole love spectrum.
> >
> I can see this tying right into the "choosing what's right over 
> what's easy".  Will Harry choose to sell off part of his soul, 
become 
> like Voldemort, and choose murder?  I can't see that happening.
> 
> > And thought two--the bell jar.
> > 
> > Perhaps Harry and Voldemort are doomed to repeat their lives 
over 
> and over again like they're in the bell jar.  
> 


I think that the idea of Harry having to sacrifice himself is 
probably dead on, unfortunately. It just makes archtypical sense, 
that he destroys V by destroying himself. He maintains his pure self 
by not really having murdered someone, yet he accomplihes his 
prophesized task. What I like about this idea of having to repeat 
the story again and again is just how parallel it is with our own 
situation. After book seven we, the readers, are 'condemned' to read 
the books over and over until the end of time! ; )

-Cornflower O'Shea