Mr Potter, he dead/LV and Hallowe'en

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 83959

<<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
wrote:...On a totally different topic, a thought came to me 
yesterday. Hallowe'en is considered to be a time when the living 
dead, witches and demons come out and are abroad for that one night 
in the year. Is there anything interesting in the fact that Voldemort 
tried to kill Harry and lost his powers and bodily form on Hallowe'en 
itself - that the most evil wizard came unstuck on the evening which 
was supposes to favour him and his like?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Maybe the irony is that Voldemort holds the conventional view that 
dead = demons = witches = a whole continuum of evil stuff; therefore 
if I'm evil I have the advantage on Halloween.

All Hallows (All Saints) Eve is not considered evil in every culture, 
just maybe the ones that syncretize it with Samhain (sp?). In fact, 
some cultures celebrate by going to the cemetery with a picnic basket 
featuring the dead folks' favorite foods and partying with their 
dearly departed. In NYC where I live, some of the graffiti memorials 
have the candles lit and fresh flowers and bottles of rum.

Point being that, as happened in the magical golden cage match in 
GoF, the righteous dead can take advantage of any parting of the veil 
as well as the evil dead; you've got to believe that there are 
probably more of them anyway. So perhaps Voldemort would have been 
better off picking a night when only his living enemies were 
available to oppose him...

--JDR