[HPforGrownups] Re: Bloomsbury Screen Saver! SPOILER!

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 130754

On 6/15/05, Claire <Cfitz812 at aol.com> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "labmystc" <labmystc at y...>
> >     A binding magical contract between DD and Harry, where DD
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> > his death transfers all of his powers, memories, and thoughts (rep.
> > by pensieve)into Harry. Harry then possesses every bit of magic he
> > would ever need to defeat LV, and win in the end.
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> > Just my humble thoughts...feel free to laugh, ridicule, and
> cruciatus
> > me to death :-)
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> > Chris
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> Now Claire:
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> I just had a "duh!" moment reading your post (which is a good
> thing).  It explains a couple things for me: (1) the thread
> throughout the books that DD is the only one Voldemort ever feared,
> and (2) DD allowing Harry to confront Voldemort by giving him enough
> information (or, rather, the benefit of his knowledge) to allow Harry
> to succeed.  It makes sense, then, that DD transfers all he knows to
> Harry before he dies such that Harry is now the one to be feared.



Holy frogbrains batman!

Death and rebirth have been a major theme in the books to the extent
that one of them was named after a creature known for dying and being
reborn.  It seems the only goal of Riddle's existence is to ensure
that he doesn't die and She who made this world tells us the question
we should be asking is not "Why did Harry live?" but "Why didn't
Voldemort die?"

I'm going to ramble a bit, but hang in there.

The Order of the Phoenix fights Voldemort, but why call it the Order
of the Phoenix?  Surely they are all willing to die in the fight, and
Fawkes at least showed that he was willing to die in the fight at the
Ministry.  And yet it seems there should be more than that because
Phoenixes don't just die--they die and are reborn.

Perhaps the Phoenix referred to is not really a phoenix, but a person
who has accepted the responsibility of being "the Phoenix."  I'm
probably not going to say this well but I envision a line of people
extending back into the past, perhaps to Godric Gryffindor who each
pass their accumulated experiences to a successor.  When one phoenix
dies, he is "reborn" in his successor in the sense that the successor
has inherited all the experiences of all the previous phoenixes.

The phoenix is dedicated to fighting those who practice the dark arts.
 He accepts the pain and loneliness to help others (his tears have
healing powers).  He accepts the insanely difficult chore of fighting
evil (he can bear very heavy burdens).

I can see it.

-- 
Gregory Lynn