I love tragic endings

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 85558

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Helen R. Granberry" wrote:
 
> In OotP, Dumbledore talks about this pain that is worse than death. 
> I don't think that pain is losing what you love; I think what is 
> worse than death is never knowing love at all -- or perhaps getting 
> a glimpse, and knowing it is too late for you, knowing it is 
> something you can never have because you made the wrong choices. 
> Voldemort has chosen mere existence over truly living. He has 
> forsaken all values in pursuit of this non-value – living a life 
> that is really not a life at all. Voldemort can never know 
> happiness because he holds no values other than merely continuing 
>  to exist. He can never know love. This is worse than death – it is 
> a living death. 
> 


Helen, I agree with a lot of what you've said in this post [including 
the parts I snipped].  

I *definitely* want a happy ending to this series.  Roll your eyes, 
folks, call me names--I don't care.  I'm being honest.  I want Voldy 
dead & gone, even if that [of course!] doesn't mean dark wizards & 
witches are gone forever.  I want Harry to have a future--I don't 
care whether he plays quidditch, becomes an auror, owns a bookstore 
in Muggle London.  I don't care.  I just want there to be that time 
for him to be "just Harry".  

I also don't buy that there are no others who could ever understand 
the scars he'd be living with.  People can understand parts of it, 
and people can be helpful just in BEING there.  Ginny has been 
possessed by & almost killed by Tom Riddle; she *can* understand some 
of what Harry has experienced.  If even some of those people who've 
been around, supporting Harry since he came to Hogwarts--Ron, 
Hermione, Hagrid, Ginny, Lupin, DD, maybe even Luna--are still 
around, then he has hope for getting through the rough time after 
it's all over.

ANYWAY, that's not really what I intended to respond to here.  
[Sorry.]  It's your comments about Voldy.  While I agree with you 
that he has chosen a mere existence over truly living, I do have to 
ask, are we SURE he has never known love or can never know love?  
Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but I get the feeling 
Bellatrix loves Voldy.  Could it be a reciprocal thing--if not now, 
then possibly in the future if Voldy were to win?  I still think his 
life would be less than "truly living" but just want to quibble w/ 
that one point of whether we *know* he hasn't or can't know love?  
Anyone care to shed light?


Siriusly Snapey Susan...who definitely wants Harry to live but who 
would, if he were to die, be content with her copy of Arabella & 
Zsenya's After the End. :-)