Harry & Elf Blood ( was Harry & the Fisher King)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 106812


> Jen said: 
> > When does JKR's story begin? My speculation is starting to 
remind me of the wounded Fisher King in the legend of the Holy 
Grail, where he & his desolated country can only be healed if  
an 'innocent' comes to his castle and asks the correct  
question: "Whom does the Grail serve?" or "What ails thee?"
> 
> > This is an interesting analogy because Harry is definitely the 
> > innocent who arrives at the castle, but he doesn't ask 
questions!! When will he ask the crucial question and what will that 
question be? 
>  
> Valky replied:
> > He *has*, Jen.
> > Harry came to the castle with one burning question on his mind 
> that parrallels both:  whom does the grail serve? AND what ails 
thee? "Who am I?" "Who is Harry Potter"
> > 
> > Harry even answers a question about wether he is Harry or not 
> > with "Oh him..." in PS. 
> 
> Jen: And also, 'whom does Harry serve'? I'm a little confused by 
> your answer Valky, even though it struck me as an "aha" moment 
when I read it. Probably because I pictured Harry asking the 
question about someone or something else, at a pivotal moment.
>

Valky:
He does ask himself whom does Harry serve, this is true. 
I ought to clarify how I saw the two questions also in case you 
might need my POV on that. 
I see who am I? as being, Harry has grown up believing he was muggle 
and unimportant, he goes to the castle after having been told that 
he is a wizard and that his parents are not drunk bad drivers who 
never took care of their child but instead James and Lily Potter 
Famous and Admired by the WW.
So he really doesn't know who he is anymore. 
The questions whom does the Grail serve and What ails thee, are like 
saying to the wizard world why do you need and worship "Harry 
Potter"? and what is he supposed to do?


Jen also said: 
> When you talk about 'who is Harry Potter' it makes me wonder again 
> about his blood. And Lily's, Petunia's and Dudley's. Valky, you 
were in a discussion about those particular characters having Elf 
blood, which was very interesting (and could explain Petunia's 
cleaning obssesion!).

Valky:
OF course, cleaning Obsession! AHA! more canon to add to the pile 
thanks Jen. It is a overly repeated adjective isn't it. And charme 
was looking for those because its seems that we are on a trail of 
them in particular.
You are one hell of a brainstormer you know! 

Jen also said:
> Now I'm thinking the connection with Godric Gryffindor 
> seems almost a given, a parallel to Riddle's connection with 
> Slytherin through his mother's bloodline. I thought having 
> Gryffindor's blood played a role in saving baby Harry, but 
Charme's idea of Elf blood is growing on me.
> 
> So hey, maybe Godric was an Elf before they became enslaved, eh? 
> Actually, I wonder if in the fight with Gryffindor, Slytherin 
didn't put a spell on GG to become an Elf, his bloodline forever 
enslaved  <snip exellent continued braistorming>

Valky:
Now we're talking! I really think your on to something in two ways. 
Godric could be an elf thats not totally impossible. What if the 
other houses were different parts of the magical brethren, also. 
Say for example that Rowena was a centauress which sort of catches 
me as true because she was on about wisdom and purest intelligence 
reminds me of Majorian and Firenze, and Helga could have been what? 
I wonder.