HP and the Pillar of Storge- Philisophical or Real?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 102969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:

Wanda:
> I'm not a classicist, but I've come 
> across the word 'storge' once before: in C.S. Lewis's "The Four 
> Loves", which follows the pattern you've listed above, moving from 
> the lowest to the highest form of love.  As for "pillar", I guess 
> there's nothing to prevent Rowling from just creating a physical 
> pillar in her story and giving it this name; but when I hear the 
> word my first automatic association is with "pillar of fire".  They 
> combine to give a sort of mystical impression, in my mind.
 
Geof:
I've referred to CSL's book a couple of times in the past and storge 
was the one I couldn't rememeber!

Curiously, I didn't latch on to the Biblical pillar of fire (and 
pillar of cloud) but the pillars of wisdom crossed my mind - 
T.E.Lawrence I think, but there were seven of those. Probably no 
connection.

Geoff (rambling on Sunday moening after waking up late)