Harry (technically) dying?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 127607


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" <jmgarciaiii at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Just another greco-roman mythology underworld snippet:
> 
> In Book 5, Filch is given the task of ferrying students across the 
> swamp which Fred & George create...which sounds a lot like Charon 
> ferrying the dead across the river Acheron (or was it the river 
Styx?).
> 

Tonks:
I am not sure about Filch, but I have a theory about Hagrid and the 
first years. Only the first year students come to Hogwarts by boat. 
Why? Because that is a symbol of baptism. They can not come to 
Hogwarts, the spiritual (magical) world, until they are baptised.

Tonks_op