[HPforGrownups] Re: Books 6 & 7 - tragedy or triumph?

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 107007

> Hans Andra wrote:
> 
> 7. I said they'd be decapitated - I didn't say they'd be executed. 
Perhaps the decapitation will happen some other way. Perhaps by 
magic, perhaps by some accident, I just don't know.


Valky:
What about floo heads then?
It may be a symbolic way to separate their heads from their bodies. 
I have a few postulations that go with this theory but I can't seem 
to extricate R and H dying in some way during it, or at least being 
vulnerable to an attack without defence. 
A second way to consider it is the mirror that Sirius gave to Harry, 
perhaps Harry might pass through the veil and is able to contact his 
best friends from the other side, presumably if he used the mirror 
he would only be able to see their heads and gain from that and not 
their physical assistance. The result is of course Harry resurrected 
from the Gate of Saturn, presuming he does so, and bringing his 
connection with R and H with him.
Of course, I am probably entirely off the mark but at least its some 
possible scenarios that don't involve scenes of gratuitous carnage 
enacted on our favourite couple.

Hans: 
Thanks Valky, anything is possible here. A lot of my theories have formed
after reading posts so thanks for adding your thoughts. 

I have one big question about Liberation. Perhaps you people can help me
understand this. Why is this process often depicted as being full of
suffering and sorrow, when in fact liberation is the most wonderful and
beautiful thing there is. I just don't know why Harry has to suffer so much.
I don't know why Jesus' crucifixion is regarded as such torture. And the
Alchemical Wedding with its 7 decapitations isn't exactly a tea party
either. Yet what can be more ecstatic than to be liberated from our own
inner evil? Sure, it's hard work. It's painful to have to give up the forces
within us that enslave us to the past and which have accumulated to become
world-dominating, but in essence the process is overwhelmingly joyous. Just
think of the beauty of Harry and Hermione saving Buckbeak and Sirius, of
Harry setting Dobby free, of Fawkes' tears saving Harry, or of Harry's love
of Sirius.
To attempt to answer my own question, perhaps the darkness and tragedy are
there to offset the ultimate light and sublimity of it. I guess people are
in fact attracted by the struggle of light against darkness. The harder and
darker the struggle, the more effulgent the ultimate victory of the light.
I want to put on record here and now though, that in fact Harry's Path of
Liberation (as explained in my essay) is one of unimaginable beauty, ecstasy
and joy.
Hans


	
	
		
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