Reaction to MAGIC DISHWASHER (TBAY INTRO)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 81067

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
> 
> A phoenix is a symbol of rebirth. But what is often forgotten is 
> that before it is reborn, it dies in fire. As Fawkes does in the 
fight against Voldemort.As the old Wizarding World will, if 
Dumbledore has his way.
> 
> The eleven year old Harry would probably have thought this a bad 
> thing. The fourteen year old Hermione was beginning to see that her 
> new world needed changing. What will the seventeen year old Trio 
> think? 
> Is Dumbledore's phoenix fire better than Voldemort's pure ice?


Jen Reese:

I couldn't bear to snip your ending because it is so eloquent and 
says so much about the imagery of the Phoenix.

I read your post three times with three different reactions: My first 
reaction was much like the 11 year-old Harry might have felt --Who 
cares if the WW is destroyed by fire OR ice if you are going to take 
away my (Harry's) escape from the dreadful Muggle World, where they 
can't see magic if it hits them in the face. Depressing...

The second time I realized how beautiful your ending truly is--yes, 
it's still bleak, but since we all must change, why not go down in 
the fires of transformation rather than the suffocation of ice?

The third time--anger--if this is true, then Dumbledore needs to go.  

Because if this scenario is true, then we aren't talking about a 
battle between Good and Evil anymore, this is more like a morally 
compromised battle of egos and agendas--is it really better to 
sacrifice the WW of today for the "nameless, faceless" WW of 
tomorrow? If you believe Good and Evil are Yin and Yang, as I do, 
then evil never truly dies--you can't truly know Good without an 
introduction to Evil and you can't know Death if you don't know Life.

So, if indeed Dumbledore plans to sacrifice the WW for his ideal, no 
matter how noble and perfect, he needs to realize that there are a 
lot of different ways to "force" an agenda on other people besides 
the brute force of Voldemort (including never letting them in on the 
agenda in the first place) and he needs to make his Exit, posthaste.

Jen, climbing off her soapbox to write her next post entitled, "Why 
Lucius is a Spy" based on an acceptance of the MAGIC DISHWASHER as 
the underlying theme of the HP series...who said I can't play both 
sides? ;)