Return from the Underworld in Greek Mythology (Re: Sirius...

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No: HPFGUIDX 104597

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/6/2004 3:37:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> anthyroserain at y... writes:
> WHERE'S SIRIUS'S BODY? In my experience (in JKR's books and others) 
> when you don't have a body or conclusive proof that someone is dead 
> (conclusive proof might be, say, the person went up in flames) it's 
> a tip-off that she/he is going to come back. If Sirius was killed 
by 
> Bellatrix, he *should* have left a body behind. If he simply 
tripped 
> over the threshold, then we may well be due for an Orpheus/Eurydice 
> adventure. (As someone --forget who, sorry-- pointed out, we 
haven't 
> seen Fluffy for some time.) I'm clinging to this shred of hope!
> ======================
> Sherrie here:
> 
> Given the outcome of that little escapade (Orpheus, in his 
impatience, turns 
> around before Eurydice is completely back in the living world, thus 
sending 
> her forever back into the Underworld; Orpheus then goes mad & winds 
up getting 
> torn to bits) - I'm not altogether sure that's such a good model to 
work from...


SOF:

Actually, pretty much every HP novel has a complete journey including 
an Underworld descent and Return. The kids go through the trap door 
for the Stone in SS, down into the Chamber of Secrets to retrieve 
Ginny, beneath the willow to retrieve Ron, into the labyrinth to win 
the Triwizard Cup and into the Department of Mysteries to rescue 
Sirius. 

The Underworld can be symbolized.