"More wonderful and More Terrible than Death"

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89266

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <baseball_07_05 at y...>
wrote:
> >Karen said
> >I think JKR chose the word HEART because it has so many possible
> >definitions beyond just LOVE. Maybe she wasn't trying to align each
> >house with the word, but just maybe, the word HEART ultimately sums
> >up what unites Hogwarts and what is needed to unite the wizarding
> >world. If Harry is a descendent of all the original founders of
> >Hogwarts, he could embody HEART in all of its definitions.
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps heart could be a combination of the four houses, as with the 
> four chambers of the Heart. Each house supposedly represents a 
> certain trait, perhaps the perfect heart/person will have an equal 
> balance of the 4 traits.
> 
> Andrew


Nice idea, but wouldn't that make Percy the perfect person?
Intelligence (all those OWLs and NEWTs), courage of sorts (defying his
family), loyalty (to old Barty Crouch and now, alas, to Fudge), and
ambition?

Carol