Significance of Ginny

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 124242


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> 
> >>Sherrie here:
> >Indeed he did - from the Triple Goddess of ancient lore.  The 
> Fates,  the Norns, the Erinyes - sets of trifold Goddesses, which 
> many simply define as  Maiden, Mother & Crone.  (Lily/Molly/Minerva; 
> I haven't quite defined  the roles in the second triad, except that I 
> rather think that Hermione is the Crone.)<
> 
> Betsy:
> Hermione is definitely the Crone.  I think Ginny might be the 
> Mother?  She's associated with eggs a lot, IIRC.  Which defaults Luna 
> to Maiden - though I don't have anything in mind as to *why* she's 
> the Maiden.  I'll leave that to cleverer posters. :)
> 
> Betsy

Antosha:

Actually, I think a combination of the two three-goddess systems, the classical pagan 
triune Goddess (crone/mother/maiden) and the Aristotelian (body/mind/spirit) is possible 
here, because Hermione/Ginny/Luna as mind/body/spirit works quite well indeed.

Of course, if one wished to look at it this way, both systems are symbolic embodiments of 
Past (Mind/Crone/Father/Thesis), Present (Body/Mother/Son/Antithesis) and Future 
(Spirit/Maiden/Holy Ghost/Synthesis). But now I'm getting all Joseph Campbell-y again... 
;-)