Figuring out the WW (was Four More Ways to Predict)

[Marcelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 97073

> <Jim>We love making predictions about what's to come in the (sadly)
> shrinking future of the HP series. I do. A lot of us comb canon 
looking for clues in the text that point to the future, and that's 
one of the ways to do it, but I think there's others that don't get 
used as often that can lead to interesting predictions</Jim>
Tim:  
> 6 ways to predict:
> > 1) <Jim>Comb canon</Jim>
> > 2) <Jim>What would Harry do?</Jim>
> > 3) <Jim>Harry as history</Jim>
>  4) <Jim>If this was my problem, how would I solve it?</Jim>
> > 5) <Jim>Parallel literature</Jim>
> > 6) <Steve>Logical expansions of the wizard world</Steve>
> >7)<Tim/DumbleDad> Textual statistics


celletiger:
I'd like to add another way of looking at the text: Separation, 
Initiation, Return.  Is there anything novel about Harry Potter? 

Every work of fiction has the same concept: separation, initiation, 
return.  It works, for Sir Gawain, Perceval, Luke Skywalker, Frodo, 
etc., and of course, Jesus Christ.  Thus, Harry Potter can fit into 
the standard mold of popular fiction: Harry's separation: Godric's 
Hollow and eleven years at the Dursley's (PS/SS).  Harry's 
initiation: Harry learns about the WW and his role in it (HP 1-5. 
et. seq.).  Harry's return: acceptance to Hogwarts, but more 
importantly, defeats LV, and assumes role in WW and muggle world 
based on lessons learned in the initiation phase (HP 1-7, especially 
7.)

Try watching a 30 minute television sitcom without recognizing the 
separation-initiation-return pattern in every story arch.  Can 
somone think of an example of *popular* fiction that does not follow 
this outline?  

celletiger, who learned this S-I-R theory way back in college in an 
Arthurian Legends course