Harry and the chocolate egg

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 89853

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" 
<rredordead at a...>
> wrote:
> > >--JDR
> > >I think Molly will die before the series ends, and both the fact 
> > >and the manner of her death will be gut-wrenching.
> > 
> > Mandy here:
> > 
> > Could JKR kill and/or maim another mother in the series? 
> > Harry's mum murdered 
> > Neville's tortured 
> > Tom Riddle's dead in childbirth agony 
> > Sirius' mother dead and her memory portrait seriously deranged.
> > 
> > I don't think I could take any more.  Molly is the only 
> > representation of a 'mum' loving, nurturing and alive that we and 
> > Harry have.
Carol wrote:> Just a thought. Many fantasies, folk tales, and fairy 
tales begin with
> the hero (or heroine) already orphaned, or a parent, usually the
> mother, is killed off early in the story. Take virtually any 
character from Bambi
> to Harry himself. The death of the mother is a plot device to force
> the hero to come to terms with life without the sheltering love of a
> mother. But to kill off a surrogate mother like Molly at a stage 
when
> the hero has outgrown that need (or the best friend's mother when he
> also is growing up) serves no such purpose. It's male friends and
> father figures that matter to Harry now, as we saw with Sirius. So, 
as
> I stated in the previous post, I think Molly will suffer greatly and
> lose more than one son, but I don't think she herself will die.
> 
> Carol
AmanitaMuscaria now writes : Carol, you're quite right about the need 
for a hero to not have encumbering parent figures, and they are 
usually absent from a very early age. The transition to adulthood is 
taken by the hero with very little emotional support, until the 
arrival of the mentor. This pattern, however, seems to leave out all 
of the human, feeling side of the journey, and concentrate on the 
adventures of the hero.
 I tend to think (or maybe hope?) that JKR will not make the series 
into an action tale, but will deal to some extent with Harry's 
personal growth as well as with him becoming the conquering hero. 
 She's certainly following his emotional turmoil so far - I hope she 
will give him some pointers (Molly? Luna?) about how people live 
their everyday lives ...
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria