Prince of Walpurgis - Tales from the Dark Side.

mnaper2001 mnaperrone at aol.com
Thu Jul 1 17:14:50 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 103926


> Wanda wrote: 
> > This hearkens back to the "Simplify! Simplify!" thread of a week 
> ago 
> > or so.  As someone pointed out, the readers are dazzlingly 
creative 
> > in their theories, but the books themselves have never turned out 
> to 
> > be quite so elaborate.  There are a few twists and tricks in 
each, 
> > but they are still reasonably plain adventures, not elaborate 
> > anagrams which mean the exact opposite of what they seem to mean.

Pandrea:

> That's true, but I think that Godric Gryffindor is an equally 
simple 
> solution to the Prince question.  Credibility-straining suggestions 
> like Dean, Seamus, Flitwick etc aren't the only other possibility.
> 
> I do agree we definitely need to know more about Tom Riddle and, 
> specifically, why he was so keen to conquer death.


Ally:

I suppose that if its not Tom Riddle, Godric Gryffindor would be a 
plausible alternative.  But from a narrative perspective, if it is 
Godric Gryffindor, what would the significance be?  What would a 
story focusing largely on him do for the books?  One way this would 
make sense is if Harry is somehow related to GG - "heir" of 
Gryffindor and all - but I HATE this theory, largely b/c JKR seems to 
have repudiated the idea that heritage matters in determining a 
person's courage or worth.  To have her hero turn out to be a direct 
lineal descendant of GG would go against that whole theme (and not to 
mention absolutely make me hurl).

But I suppose there are other ways that Harry learning about GG could 
be significant - he could learn from GG's history something that will 
be important to him defeating Voldie, I suppose.  But it still seems 
most logical to me that it will be Riddle.  I could be wrong, about 
that, but it would fit perfectly for her to go into Riddle at this 
point in the books and then have Harry find out about himself in Book 
7.  





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