OOP: Re: Why Harry will die

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 65652

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:

> I think that we are yet to see the true importance of the veil and 
> the role of death in the Potterverse. I do wonder whether Harry 
will 
> have to go on a journey beyond the veil in a quest to discover a 
way 
> to defeat Voldemort, or simply Orpheus-like to meet those he 
cannot 
> bear to have lost. Harry already knows how to get past Cerberus-
> Fluffy, the Ancient Greek Guardian of the Underworld.

I think you are on to something here. The Descent Motif runs pretty 
thick in epic literature and it'd be fitting for HP to go through 
the veil to the underworld--TECHNICALLY dying--and then coming back 
(maybe after some sort of struggle) which means he has technically 
resurrected. Whether this will take on aspects of Christian theology 
or Greco-Roman mythology...or a mish-mash of the two, I cannot begin 
to speculate.

-Joe in SoFla