CoS vs. Dark Mark and animals as signifiers

[barbara_mbowen]

No: HPFGUIDX 104478

Sorry about that blank post...what I meant to say was:


<I'm getting the feeling more and more that Harry and Voldemort are 
connected
through their souls and that the thing that made Tom Riddle the Dark Lord is
also
what enables Harry to be The One. And I also think it must go all the way 
back
to
Slytherin, and by necessity then, Gryffindor, too.

Arya (whose gears are grinding away)>

Marmelade Mom, whose gears are grinding around all this imagry:

Yes, it has to be their souls are connected and involve the founders of the 
school.  And so it involves Dumbledore in that he must be the Gryffindor's 
descendent.  On his door (CoS, p ) is a knocker in the shape of a griffin.  
Griffin + door.  I can't be the first (or second or third even) to notice this.  But 
what's a griffin?  It's a lion with the head of an eagle, sometimes with wings.  
A lot like Buckbeak, who is a horse with the head and wings of an eagle.  
Dumbledore is already connected to a bird:  Fawkes, a phoenix.  So, where is 
the lion?  Goofy as it sounds, the lion is the king of the jungle.   What is its 
offspring, if its offspring has the head of a bird?   A half-blood prince? 

Animal imagry is everywhere, as well as the things which are half one thing 
and half another.  The snake is Slytherin's sign, and a real snake, a basilisk, 
existed in the Chamber of Secrets.  Where is that boa constrictor Harry set 
loose in book one?  Did it make its way to Brazil, or to the service of the Dark 
Lord?  Would it be loyal to Voldemorte or turn to the one who set it free?  
Nagini never hurt Harry, and Nagini can move fast.  Then there's a half 
kneazle, Crookshanks, who loved Sirius.  (and, point to the Sirius defenders, 
can tell false from true...) There are all the half bloods running around.  Half 
Giant Hagrid.  The thestrals who are reptilean, carniverous horses.   Half 
dragon????  The animagi who are half animals.   All the people associated/
represented by animals:  Harry/stag, Dumbledore/phoenix/griffin?, Sirius/dog, 
Lupin/wolf, McGonagal/cat, Dudley/pig, Voldemort/snake, Harry/snake...

And Harry, whose soul is connected to Voldemort's.   I suspect that if that 
scar isn't eradicated, Harry will die when Voldemort does, and the analogy I 
would make is with Siamese twins being separated.   Removing the scar 
might just kill Harry, but it would be his only chance....   And would it kill 
Voldemort for Harry to lose it?  i keep thinking of a story by Nathaniel 
Hawthorne about a woman who is so beautiful her only flaw is a tiny red 
birthmark on her cheek.  Her husband becomes obsessed with eradicating it 
and making her "perfect".  He succeeds and kills her in the process.  This 
was Hawthorne being Puritanical and lugubrious, but here's a twist on that:  
what if that scar is all that holds Voldy to life?  If I'm not the first (and I'm 
probably not), I'd love to be pointed to discussion of this.

Marmelade Mom