Harry/Voldemort fusion theory

[mclellyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 111326

> > Gadfly McLellyn wrote:
> > 
> > Reading MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS edited by Carl Gustav Jung, I got the 
> > idea that symbolically Harry is consciousness and Voldemort is 
> > unconsciousness.  In essence they are one being badly 
splintered.  This would tie many things together from the Harry 
Potter books.  
   tons of snipping 
Cindy wrote: 
    more snipping
> Yes, I believe that Harry and V are "shadows" of each other that 
need to be fused - that is why "neither can live while the other 
> survives".  One consciousness has to become part of the other (in a 
> sense die "at the hand of the other"), because they are somehow 
> split, and need to merge together. There is a part in one of the 
> books, and I've been unable to find it, where DD sees two shadowy 
> snakes emerge from his pensieve(?) (can't remember if that is what 
it was).  He mentions something about them being separate but of the 
> same essence.  That is what stuck with me, and why I believe in the 
> end, V will die and Harry will live.  The two will come together in 
> Harry.  Why do I think Harry will live?  Simply because I believe 
the evil will be vanquished; my opinion is the series will not end 
with this evil being roaming around.

Gadfly writes:

I don't think we quite agree.  I don't think evil will die.  I think 
Voldemort will lose his body and be assimilated by Harry, but he will 
not die.  I'm beginning to think the reason JKR says the last 
word in the last book is "scar" is because this cycle will start over 
again.  

Also remember on the chocolate frog card (SS p102) it says 
Dumbledore "defeat"s the dark wizard Grindelwald -- he does not kill 
him. So in other words, Dumbledore was not the one assimilated into 
Grindelwald.

>From MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS about the forces of opposites:

"(Greek thinkers) postulated the existence of a sort of life-
giving "tension" (tonos), which supports and moves all things."  
p306  .

"We can also see that the arrangement of archetypal symbols follows a 
pattern of wholeness in the individual, and that an appropriate 
understanding of the symbols can have a healing effect.  And we can 
see that the archetypes can act as creative or destructive forces in 
our mind; creative when they inspire new ideas, destructive when 
these same ideas stiffen into conscious prejudices that inhibit 
further discoveries."  pg 304.

Tension.  Creative or destructive forces.  They will always be part 
of the human condition.  That may be the uniqueness of the Harry 
Potter books -- to teach this complex idea to children.

Gadfly McLellyn