Harry and Hagrid (re: Two Crazy Theories)

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 106565


Jen wrote at the end of her message:
"Any thoughts on that part Iris, Hans or anyone else following this
thread?"

Hi, Jen!
I'm not going to miss the opportunity to follow an `alchemical 
thread'!
But the reply I'm going to give to your very interesting post won't 
follow its initial order. Hope it doesn't matter too much.

Let's start! You write:
" 
then Harry will be back where he started, with the Keeper of the 
Keys. Reminds me of T.S. Eliot:

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." (Four Quartets)

Beautiful! That's exactly how I hope the story will end, and not 
only regarding Harry. We readers will arrive where we started. Then 
we will have to re-read all the series again, and it will be as if 
it were completely new. I like that fascinating possibility, and 
hope you are right!

At the end of your post, you say:
"All this alchemical wondering has me thinking even more that Albus
will play a very important role in Book 6, possibly as the half
blood prince or prince of half-bloods."

Do you think of Albus Dumbledore? He would be a wonderful half blood 
prince. And he is necessarily going to play an important part in the 
sixth book, simply because Harry might feel resentful towards him 
and think he's responsible for the loss of Sirius. Maybe Dumbledore 
will be the next important character to die, I don't know. Or maybe 
he will turn out to be less powerful than he seems to be. Maybe not 
less powerful than Voldemort, but less powerful than Harry. It would 
be logical: Harry as at least one power Dumbledore doesn't have: the 
power to vanquish the Dark Lord.

A few paragraphs before, you wrote:  
"I was particulary fascinated by the idea that Book 5 was the Nigredo
phase, or dissolution, symbolized by Sirius Black. As he dies, and
will most likely be reborn in a new form, so does the Nigredo stage
give way to the next stage Albedo, or purification, and finally the
last stage you talk about Iris, the Rubedo."

I agree with dear Sirius being the symbol of the Nigredo phase in 
OotP.
But he is not the one who dies and will be reborn in a new form, 
IMO. He dies, yes, but he is not playing the part of the initiated. 
This is Harry's part. Harry is the chosen one. He `dies' in OotP, 
because he is no longer the little boy we used to know, and because 
he looses most of his usual attributes (being a Quidditch star 
player, being `better' than Ron, being popular, being Dumbledore's 
pet, etc
). At the end of the book, the Harry we knew, the cute Boy 
Who Lived, is `dead'. Harry is reborn; he is still the same, but at 
the same time he is different. We face by now the disturbing 
Prophecy Boy, the Marked Man. But that's actually what he was since 
the beginning, and JKR told us since the first book. Didn't she 
write, just before sorting Harry, that Mac Gonagall had come 
to `lead him to his DOOM'? It was there, clearly explained, but we 
didn't understand, or we didn't dare imagine what it could mean. 
Then OotP came and we had to understand, if it wasn't already done. 
Reading that book was a Nigredo phase for us too, it was uneasy and 
disturbing sometimes. 
Now,in a sort of way, we are initiated too. It's not just an 
entertaining and gripping book we are holding by now in our hands. 
It's also a metaphysical work, that requires more than our liking 
for reading.

Of course, it's only *my* point of view,

Amicalement,

Iris