Character Discussion: Hermione (2)

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 125558

There are many different ways to symbolise the Path to eternal life. Just
look how many myths, legends, fairy tales, heroic epics and gospels there
are that tell the same story in different ways. Hence I find it difficult to
predict exactly how Hermione will end up. So far Harry Potter has followed
"The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross" fairly closely. Will it go
on like that, or will it depart from that track?

I love the way John Granger has quite boldly stated his predictions for the
last three books in "Hidden Key to Harry Potter" in a very jovial and
laid-back way. I'm taking his example and saying, "Here's my guesses, but
don't keep reminding me for the next 30 years about how wrong I was".

I still have that funny intuitive inclination to see the trio as the
Half-Blood Prince. As I've explained in detail before, HRH = His Royal
Highness, and the amount of "pure-blood" in the trio is 1. This would mean
the trio would end up as one person. This makes sense in terms of an
alchemical wedding, but not as a children's story. The other clue I can't
put out of my
mind is that in book 5 Harry dreams of Ron and Hermione wearing crowns. In
"The Alchemical Wedding" a young king and queen sit in a circle of six with
a crown over their heads. Maybe it's a red herring, but I find this a strong
argument for seeing at least Ron and Hermione ending up as royals.

Let's just briefly see who does what in "The Alchemical Wedding". All three
kings and three queens are decapitated, but not Christian Rosycross. However
he "passes through the Gate of Saturn" symbolically by playing a vital role
in the revivification of the reborn king and queen in the eighth floor of
the Tower of Olympus. The bodies of the six monarchs are used in a long
alchemical process that ends up with a white clayey substance that is poured
into the moulds of two tiny children, a boy and a girl. These are fed on the
blood of a bird and they grow quickly to adult size human bodies. Then the
Spirit is led into them by the "Old Man in the Tower" (Dumbledore
obviously), and they come back to life. Just after this the gate
keeper complains about someone seeing Lady Venus, and this is when Christian
Rosycross confesses he's the one.

What is the meaning of this symbolism? The three royal couples personify the
three aspects of the consciousness: the flawed good side (Lupin), the bad
side (Snape), and the new consciousness. As you can see, this means that
Snape and Lupin are each equivalent to a royal couple. Why? Because "The
Alchemical Wedding" symbolises the three aspects in terms of them having a
positive and negative side, i.e. an active and passive role. The male here
symbolises the creative role and the female the receptive and birth-giving
role. Perhaps we'll find out Snape and Lupin have wives somewhere; who
knows?

The death of the six monarchs symbolises the complete termination of the old
and new aspects of the consciousness. This doesn't mean the candidate for
alchemical transformation dies or falls asleep. It's a symbolical way of
saying that the consciousness of the candidate for liberation is totally
renewed and nothing of the old consciousness is left. A new, omniscient,
omnipresent and everlasting divine consciousness is born. The new king
symbolises the Spirit living in the reborn Son of God, the queen symbolises
the reborn Soul living in complete unity with the Spirit, and Christian
Rosycross symbolises the personality, the lower self, which is the perfect
vehicle for the expression of the united Spirit-Soul.

To pour the symbolic patterns of "The Alchemical Wedding" into Harry Potter,
here's what could happen.

In the final stages Lupin and Snape sacrifice themselves for Harry (or the
Half-Blood Prince). Ron and Hermione are both executed. Harry passes through
the Gate of Saturn. This could be after a real death (since he predicts his
own decapitation in book 4) but I'm inclined to think he won't die
physically, but pass through the archway as he is. Then a very big BLANK
BLANK BLANK. Something happens behind the Gate of Saturn, and somehow Harry,
Ron and Hermione are united into one "Half-Blood Prince", with Sirius
deeply involved. Hermione would symbolise the Spirit, Harry the Soul, and
Ron the personality.

Then, as I mentioned previously, I think Harry or HRH will come back to the
muggle world somehow and take Hagrid's place. Dobby will be at his side, and
perhaps Harry or HRH will liberate Nearly Headless Nick. Perhaps the
Deathday Party was a clue to how Harry will liberate Sir Nick. He always
wanted to be decapitated properly, didn't he? Well perhaps Harry will do the
job properly, though with a wand rather than an axe. Nick this time will
face "death" without fear, and he'll be able to charge off into the
distance, finally able to join the Headless Hunt!

That's getting right away from Hermione, but I just thought of it and got
carried away.

Getting back to Hermione, I realise all the above sounds extremely vague and
doesn't really convey any clear images. But that's the best I can do.
Perhaps after July 16th I'll be able to do a better prediction. Anyway
predictions are fun only as long as they're predictions. If I were quite
certain, by clairvoyantly looking Jo's mind for instance, you wouldn't want
to hear me, would you?


"if I talk too freely about [if I believe in God] I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books." JK Rowling

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Hans Andra 
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