I know Molly.....

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No: HPFGUIDX 84321

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
<after I ran wild with the sissors, this was all that was left:>
> 
> The Sergeant Majorette (also tired of the Molly bashing) says
> 
> I got the chills just reading this, but it makes sense, and it 
works 
> with my theory that it's Lucius Malfoy that will turn out to be the 
> real threat. An old-school, with-your-shield-or-on-it matriarch 
like 
> Molly could soldier through any of those boggart deaths except 
> unrepentant!Percy. Maybe the "relationship at the heart of it all" 
> isn't teen love at all, but mother/child.
> 
> --JDR (crying already! where's my anxiolytic?)


  JDR,

  Since Rowling's a mother herself, I think there's a good deal of 
possibility in this theory. She also likes to put new spins on old 
concepts, and is positively brilliant about showing us an old 
situation in a new light, which could be a cliche if another author 
wrote it.

  The "dying traitor redeemed by his actions" may very well be Percy. 
I hope, however, if this is the case, that there is time for his 
family to say their goodbyes, and make things right. I have a feeling 
however she writes the scene, it would be a powerful message about 
betrayal, resolution of conflict between family, and love.

  I also have to wonder how this would parallel to C.S. Lewis's 
Narnia. I really have to find a way to post my connections between 
the stories and the HP books up here. The similarites between Percy 
and Edmund run thick- and so do those between Dumbledore and Aslan. 
As you may remember, Aslan sacrificed himself and his life in 
exchange for Edmund's, since the White Witch demanded the blood of 
the traitor.

  Please be patient, I'll break up the C.S. Lewis file and post it in 
several ones, probably over the weekend. It needs a bit of revising, 
too. 

  -M.M. 

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