Rowling/Lucas Dark Arts Parallelism

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No: HPFGUIDX 134576

     Don't know if anyone's brought this up or not, but I seem to 
recall an uncanny parallelism between JKR's portrayal of the Dark 
Arts (their nature, how they work) as through Snape's very first 
lessons in Dark Arts in HPB with the Dark Side of the Force as 
expressed in Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, the novel.

         Snape says that the Dark Arts are "many, varied, ever-
changing and eternal...fighting (the Dark Arts)is like fighting that 
which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible...your defenses must 
therefore be flexible as the arts they combat"

   This is precisely what is said in Sith the novel, where Yoda 
realizes he cannot beat Darth Sidious because while he (Yoda) has 
been studying and teachings students the same things for well over 
900 years, the Dark Side has changed and adapted...what the Light is 
prepared to combat has changed into something else, and so Yoda's 
material is outdated. That is why he "loses" his fight with Sidiious.

        In light of this apparent philosphical agreement between the 
two stories, can we garner that Dumbledore would have lost, 
ultimately, a one-on-one duel with Voldemort, had it not been 
interupted the way it was in OoP? DD did say, after all, in PS, that 
Voldemort "has powers I will never have..." Can we agree, also, that 
the Dark Arts is stronger than its counterpart, when on equal ground 
(that is to say, when there are no step-in martyrs such as Harry's 
mother)?


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