HP as Morality Play (was Re: Harry learning from Snape )

Jennifer red_light_runner08 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Oct 4 10:42:32 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 114724


Dzeytoun: 
> <snip> Another way of looking at it is that the characters all
> represent emotional/moral traits.  Thus Harry is Love, Voldemort
> is Hate, Snape is Bitterness, Remus is Calm, Dumbledore is Wisdom,
> etc.  <snip>
> 
> I suppose if we look at HP as Morality Play then Wisdom nurtures 
> Love which will defeat Hate.  In that case, the interplay between 
> Snape and Harry (to use M. Clifford again) is about Bitterness 
> devouring itself and bringing about its own destruction due to its
> inability to embrace Love.


Jennifer:

So if-

"Harry is Love, Voldemort is Hate, Snape is Bitterness, Remus is 
Calm, Dumbledore is Wisdom..." What are Sirius and the Weasleys?









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