We are not alone (springboarding from: Snape the Zen Master

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 130170



--- Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:

[some serious pruning]

> I understand that basic training for the Army is
> rather nasty. They say mean, nasty things to you. 
You are exhausted, angry, and humiliated on a daily
basis. How is Harry's experience any different than
that?  And for the same reason, he has to be prepared
to meet  the enemy face to face. And the next time he
meets LV face to face he will have to face him alone.
No Phoenix to come to his rescue, no DD to show his
power, no ghosts from the wand to  hold LV off.  Harry
is going to have to face LV ALONE. 

akh:

This got me thinking (rather than finishing my "To Do"
list).  In fact, Harry has NEVER been alone.  In each
instance, from SS/PS through OOTP, he has been aided
by what he perceived to be lucky chances,
coincidences, fortuitous arrivals of assistance.  

Given JKR's own statement that anyone who knew her
religious convictions would have an edge in solving
the HP mystery, I got to thinking about one of the
Christian creeds Protestants recite in church, and it
begins, "We are not alone.  We live in God's world,"
and goes on from there.  Harry is not alone.  He has
his friends in PS/SS, his knowledge of the Mirror of
Erised and his mother's protection.  He has the
Sorting Hat, Godric Gryffindor's sword, Fawkes and his
unswerving loyalty to Dumbledore.  He has Lupin,
Hermione, and his skill with Expecto Patronum in POA. 
His humane treatment of Peter Pettigrew may come to
his assistance in the future.  He has his wand and the
help of the Prior Incantatem figures in GOF.  We know
his helpers in OOTP.  

Ultimately, he must vanquish LV himself, but he need
not do it alone.  

akh, who has to go to lunch now, not alone 

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