MAGIC TUMBLE DRYER (was: ANTIVIRUS - humble attempt of building a ship)

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 129914

Hello All, 

I think that the 7 Heavenly Virtues being represented in each of the 
7 books are an excellent model for interpreting the HP saga. However, 
I think Maus has misidentified the Heavenly Virtue for Book 5 (see
below.) It seems to me that OotP is not about Hope vs.
Disillusionment but is about Prudence vs. rashness/stupidity. Read
below and then I've written more after the quote.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mightymaus75" <mpjdekker at h...> 
wrote: <snip>
> Book 5: Hope (also associated with: desire, belief, reliance,
expectation)
> Vs. disillusionment
> At the start of the book Harry is disillusioned by the lack of news
in his friends' letters and the Daily Prophet. And Harry has to deal
with more disillusionment when it turns out that Hogwarts is not save
from the influences of the outside world, and when Dumbledore is
suddenly a lot
> less open and fatherly towards Harry. On top of this Harry also
finds out that his role as the hero who neatly solves everything
isn't always that simple. Harry then finally conquers his
disillusionment and shows true hope when he thinks of being with
Sirius as Voldemort possesses and tries to kill him in the MoM.
>
> Book 6: Prudence (also associated with wisdom, vigilance,
carefulness, thoughtfulness, discretion)
> Vs. rashness/stupidity
> Be prepared for Harry to act rashly and stupidly for a large part
of HBP, only to redeem himself at the very end of the book where he
will show true prudence, presumably while fighting with Voldemort.
> <snip>

In OotP: Harry rashly pokes his nose into Snape's penseive and thus
gets thrown out of Occlumency lessons. He is intemperate and
thoughtless with his friends by snapping at them and forgetting that
Ginny, too, had been possessed by Voldy. He is intolerant of DD's
emotional withdrawl. Mad-Eye Moody's quote in the beginning of the
book is "Eternal Vigilance!" and thus a reference back to the Virtue
described. Harry rashly zooms off to the MoM when he thinks Sirius is
being held and crucio'ed by Voldy instead of trying to find out more
than Kreacher's word or using the mirrors (stupid, stupid Harry!).
Etc. (I'm sure there are many more examples, but I'm reading GoF
right now. Fellow seekers: please fill in examples here.)

This leaves the virtues of Hope and Love for the last two books. I'll
bet that HBP is hope, and that Harry is depressed and hopeless
thoughout it. Thus, this is what JKR said that we won't like.

TK -- TigerPatronus

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