Such a searing pain... (Re: Harry's experiences : what's missing ?)

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 116329


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I like this theory. Except that the Dark Lord is planning to 
*kill* 
> Harry, rather than just make him suffer. 

Thanks for liking the theory, and for giving me the opportunity to 
add a couple of things. You are right when you say Voldemort's goal 
it to kill Harry, not just to make him suffer. It proves Voldemort 
didn't understand at all what being a wizard means, and what magic 
is, especially if we consider the problem from an alchemical point 
of view. Alchemy and magic are not destructive means. They work on 
the contrary with life, with creation. The Alchemists see themselves 
as students, as servants of the Creation. They try to understand it, 
in order to improve it. And if they happen to make it `suffer' in 
their athanors, it's to make it grow stronger. They are like 
Prometheus, the fire and life thief; they serve.
Voldemort uses his power not to serve, but to enslave. He doesn't 
want to create, but to destroy. He doesn't work with life, but 
against life.
That's his main weakness: he just doesn't understand why he is 
there; he makes a total misinterpretation of what a true wizard is.
So that's why he fails: he tries to use in on a destructive and 
oppressive purpose what has to be used on a creative and liberation 
purpose. 
That's why he doesn't manage to kill Harry: because Harry is a 
child, i.e a promise of life.
Even Voldemort's battle name proves he didn't understand what magic 
is: he presents himself like a death thief. Just the contrary of 
Prometheus.
Voldemort is everything but a true wizard. 
And he claims he's the greatest of all. It's the contrary. Hagrid 
understands much better than him how it works. And I hope Harry will 
understand too what he has to do. 

Amicalement,

Iris