Harry Potter and the Seven Deadlies

[montavilla47]

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Randy  wrote:
<SNIP of the theory, go UTHREAD to read it>
> Harry Potter and the Seven Deadlies

Randy, that is a very interesting theory.  When I read the HBP, I thought that Slughorn was 
a clear personfication of gluttony, and that caused me to look at the other revolving 
teachers in terms of the seven deadly sins.

But I wasn't really sure if Lockhart's main fault was envy or pride.  I think you make the 
right choice, and I love the connection you make with a "locked heart."

Yes, Umbridge was anger.  Is it always "pride" that is the first sin, or is it sometimes called 
"vanity"?  I had a friend who kept saying, "You think of vanity as someone looking at 
herself in a mirror, but that's not it..."  But it's funny that a mirror would play such a vital 
part.  And Dumbledore says that the happiest person in the world would see themselves as 
they are.  

Third year:  Sloth.  Peter certainly embodies that sin, doesn't he?  Scabbers sleeps all the 
time, waking up only when threatened.  Then he becomes the energizer rat... scuttling all 
the way to Albania.  

Interesting...


Montavilla