A Conspiracy Theory to Beat them All

[caspenzoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 111625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Hans Andréa 
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> The theory runs like this: humanity thinks it's living
> in the real world but is actually living in hell. For
> thousands of years it's been indoctrinated to believe
> that this IS the real world. This indoctrination is so
> successful there's hardly any one who knows that this
> is hell. The world governments and religious leaders
> are also reinforcing the belief that this is the real
> world. People have stood up in the past and proclaimed
> that the real world is somewhere else, but they've
> either been cruelly suppressed or their assertions
> made to look ridiculous.
> 
> One of the ways to make us think we're not in hell is
> to tell us that hell is full of fire and brimstone
> whereas hell is actually quite a pretty world,
> especially in summer. The hellish characteristic is
> not in its superficial appearance but its laws of
> endless reincarnation and of evil always balancing
> good.
> 
> Harry Potter is an attempt by people, who have escaped
> to the real world, to tell us that we're all in hell
> and to give us a guide book on how to escape.
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> The way of escape is something like this. I'm
> oversimplifying.
> 
> The human being who wants to escape has to have a
> strong motivation to do it, obviously. James Potter,
> the stag, symbolises that. The person also has to have
> pure motives, symbolised by Lilly. They give birth to
> Harry, a new soul, which is the real soul, belonging
> to the real world. He's immortal and quite alien to
> this world, which rejects him, symbolised by the
> Dursleys.
> 
> The force in the human being which imprisons him
> through all his incarnations is symbolised by
> Voldemort. He knows that the new soul will liberate
> the human being and take him into the real world,
> where Voldemort can't exist, and so Voldemort has no
> choice but to kill the new soul. However he can't if
> the person is willing to sacrifice his temporary life
> in hell for the real life in the real world.
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> The new soul has two companions who will enter the
> real world with him: the old, mortal soul, symbolised
> by Ron, and the intellectual consciousness, symbolised
> by Hermione. 
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> The old mortal soul (Ron) and the intellect
> (Hermione) know that the only way Harry can enter the
> real world is for them to sacrifice themselves. They
> die for him, knowing that they will live on in him
> when he enters the real world.
> 
> Harry at the end enters the real world, where Sirius
> is the Sun shining in Harry's eternal life. Voldemort
> and Scabbers have dissipated like smoke.
> 
> But wait! Harry looks back at us who are still
> imprisoned and deluded. His heart burns with
> indescribable compassion and he returns to the prison,
> where he keeps the keys to the real world for those
> who want to escape.
> 
> OK that's my theory. Tell me I'm insane; I can take
> it. But let me tell you this: the same story is told
> in the Bible, the Alchemical Wedding of Christian
> Rosycross, and many other books.
> 
> Hans

O.K. Hans (glad to see you here again, by the way!) - have it your 
way: you're insane!

Then again, so, perhaps, am I, because I agree with the first 
portion of your conspiracy theory, i.e.: we are indeed in hell.

But I don't understand some of your finer points - which don't, it 
seems to me, entirely add up.

Why is it that the self-sacrifice of the immortal soul as 
hypothesized in your theory (paragraph 8) "He [Voldemort] knows that 
the new soul [Harry, the immortal soul] will liberate the human 
being and take him into the real world, where Voldemort can't exist, 
and so Voldemort has no choice but to kill the new soul. However he 
can't if the person [Harry, the immortal soul] is willing to 
sacrifice his temporary life in hell for the real life in the real 
world...." has somehow become (paragraph 19, step?  you seem to have 
lost track of the steps at this point) "The old mortal soul (Ron) 
and the intellect (Hermione) know that the only way Harry can enter 
the real world is for them to sacrifice themselves. They die for 
him, knowing that they will live on in him when he enters the real 
world?"

I mean, isn't the immortal soul's sacrifice enough? It is in all of 
the other similar major allegories/conspiracy theories I'm aware of. 
Since when is it ok to sacrifice your friends, even in the cause of 
liberation? And what exactly becomes of the "old mortal soul" and 
the intellect when our heroe travels to the "real world?" Do they go 
with him? Do they come back with him when he returns? 

And a few other things are bothering me: since when was fear ever 
overcome by "longing?" (Your paragraph 14) Why does the immortal 
soul's (Harry's) mental plan for development (Sirius) get sent on 
ahead? Seems to me it'd be smarter for the immortal soul (Harry) to 
keep the plan (Sirius) handy on the journey. And how does a plan 
(Sirius) become a life-giving sun? (Your paragraph 15) Isn't it 
basically just a set of directions? Does the plan/sun (Sirius) 
direct or guide the immortal soul (Harry) back to hell? Does the 
plan/sun (Sirius) get to accompany the immortal soul (Harry) back to 
hell? And if not, in what sense does the plan/sun (Sirius) remain 
a "sun?" And isn't that "sun" (Sirius) going to end up lonely, once 
again, in the "real" world? That really bites Hans!

Fascinating, but at the point where your analogy begins to fall 
apart, seems it would be smarter to accept that the finely chisled 
peg you're trying so hard to drive, doesn't quite fit this hole. 
Rather than insist on such a fundamentalist approach (one size fits 
all, and if it doesn't, I'll make it fit), maybe you should consider 
that JKR's work has it's own unique shape afterall?

Caspen