[HPforGrownups] Triumph in tragedy

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 107151

Iris wrote:

>>You titled your post `Tragedy or triumph'. As for me, I would rather 
say `Triumph in tragedy', because that's precisely what, IMO, Jesus' 
crucifixion or the Alchemical Wedding are. That's also what the 
Harry Potter books are, by many aspects.<<

Once again a "bloody brilliant" essay! You have led us into the wonderful
world of the Greek tragedy and its aims. It just shows on how many levels HP
operates. I think possibly people will still be making comparisons and
arguing about HP in a thousand years time. Thank you so much for sharing
your insight and erudition with us. There's a lot to think about in your
essay and I hope people will keep it and read it many times to think about
it. I will. I am printing all the great posts and filing them into a thick
folder. 

Of course all this debating and exploring the depth of HP increases the
tension as we all wait for the Great End. To me the most satisfactory end
would indeed be what I've said before: after all Harry's suffering, after
all the tragedy and tribulations, after his defeat of Voldemort and the
Death Eaters by an act of love or forgiveness (I can't imagine what yet), he
will be faced with the final choice: to enter the rapturous ecstasy of
Nirvana beyond the Gate of Saturn, or to yield to the overwhelming
compassion for the rest of the human race, by becoming gate-keeper for those
who wish to go the Alchemical Path that Harry has completed. Only the second
option would satisfy me: Harry ending up as ferryman to the first years at
Hogwarts. 

Perhaps the world will see that as a tragedy, as the worst possible type of
punishment for our beloved hero, as the supreme injustice of all time. Yet
this will be what Harry himself will choose. This is the Way of the Master
of Compassion. Harry will come home to Hogwarts.

I would like to know what other members think of such an ending.

Hans in Holland


	
	
		
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