Angels on my mind

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 141715

Saraquel
I've been ruminating on some things that have been in my mind for a 
while, wondering where they fit in the scheme of things and think 
that it's about time to float an angel boat and start a - this is 
not Buffy thread.

The bits of canon which I've squirreled away relate to comments made 
by DD mostly and things foreshadowed especially in GOF and OotP.  DD 
talks twice about Harry parents living on in his heart, once at the 
end of Azkban, then again somewhere else (sorry can't pinpoint it at 
the moment, but I think it's the end of CoS.)  Then there is the 
moment where the memory of Sirius saves him in the MoM battle, the 
fact that he produces a patronus which is the same form as his 
father's animagus form, the fact that he has his mother's eyes, and 
the appearance of shadow forms emerging from Voldemort's wand.

I've been wondering if, in the final duel with Voldemort, Harry is 
not going to be helped by the living, but the dead.  One by one, 
everyone that Harry loves has died, except his peers.  Beyond the 
veil lie four incredibly powerful souls – DD, Sirius, Lily and James.

What's interesting about the GoF battle is that when the wand 
regurgitates its spells, it is not the avada kedavras which emerge, 
but the shadows of the people that they killed. As though the wand 
somehow stores/reproduces the connection between the killer and the 
killed, rather than the act of killing.  I'm wondering if this scene 
is a foreshadowing of something to come. I haven't exactly worked 
out what that might be yet, but there is the notion of feelings 
involved in casting a spell to bring into the mix.

We know that in order to cast some spells - patronus,avada kedavra - 
you really have to mean it.  In other words, you have to involve 
your whole being – head, heart and wand.  We know that powerful 
emotions can produce magical outcomes without the use of a wand or 
spell (discussed recently on the list), and that Harry seems to do 
this not infrequently. In other words he manifests his feeling 
directly into magic. We have DDs speech about his parents living on 
in Harry.  Put all that together and might we have the spirits of 
the angelic four emerging from Harry's wand because they 
somehow `live' in his heart, and through his intense loving 
invocation, emerge from his wand to help him at the end?

Saraquel
Knowing this boat will not be to everyone's taste, but feeling that 
there is enough foreshadowing to give it a ghostly form.