The Boy Who Lived

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 54252

Iris asked:

> I'd like to know how do the english-speaking listies 
> understand Harry's nickname. Do they read it only as "The Boy Who 
> Survived "? Or do they think, as I do, that it sounds odd, as if 
> Harry was actually dead?

I understand what you mean: lived in the prefect tense.  However, it 
doesn't read that way to me.  The difference between 'lived' 
and 'survived' implies to me that Harry did more than survive: even 
though he was only a baby he asserted his life by living and thus 
won a victory over the one with the power of death.  It sounds 
slightly religious to me.

David