Harry's protection

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No: HPFGUIDX 113014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
> Yes, I agree that Sacrificial Love fits the bill more than most 
> other similar possibilities. I'm not sure why I don't like it 
> (except that it's "fluffy"). 
> 
> I also don't like Heart, Humanity, Life, Hope and all that kind of 
> stuff. I think JKR is not a symbolist. She writes an adventure 
> story, not an allegory. 
> 
> For example, in the death chamber in the DoM you don't find Death. 
> You find a magical arch that is some kind of a portal to the world 
> of the dead. In the "intelligence" room you don't find Intelligence, 
> you find leaving brains. In the time room you don't find Time. You 
> find time-turners and the bell that makes things younger and older.
> 
> Therefore, IMO the power-behind-the-locked-door will turn out to be 
> some magical power that JKR invented. She might give it a name with 
> a mystic sound like "ancient magic" or "Avada Kedavra", or she'll 
> keep it so mysterious that it won't have even a name, but I think it 
> will still be a magical power or device, which can be used in 
> certain magical ways and under certain magical rules. It will of 
> course be also a metaphor for Love, Sacrifice, Morality and things 
> like that, but in the plot level in will be device, in the same way 
> that the Mirror of Erised wasn't Desire. It was a magical device 
> that symbolized Desire. 
> 

Interesting reasoning, and I can see it as just the sort of thing JKR
would do. If it does turn out so, I might just be able to bear it, 
depending on how it's presented in the story. 

But if, by my standards, a tidal wave of yuck sloshes through the
plot-line, then I shall feel compelled to inflict an alternative offering
on the members - something incorporating the traditional stiff
upper-lip, manly fortitude and the old-fashioned English abhorence
of emoting all over the place like an attention-seeking, emotionally
incontinent, narcissistic exhibitionist.

Nothing wrong with emotions of course - everybody has 'em. But 
I see them as *personal* and not to be flaunted like the local
flasher working overtime. 

I'm probably in the minority - again.

Kneasy