DD- the Cave and the Tower (long)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 147906

I am only now able to reread these chapters of HBP.  I was so 
depressed after the first reading back in July that I just could not 
bring myself to read it again until now.  But some things struck me 
this time around that I did not see the first time. There are two 
symbols of the Crucifixion of Christ that are in these chapters.  
Now I know that some here do not what to hear this.  But it is what 
it is, I didn't write the book, I am only the one reporting what I 
see.

HBP: In the cave DD drinks the poison from a cup.  

Bible: The night that Jesus was betrayed he went to the garden and 
prayed "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; 
still, not my will but yours be done"
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HBP:  The Dark Mark is over the tower. The Dark Mark is a Skull with 
a snake coming out of the mouth.  

Bible: Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, which is translated "Place 
of the Skull".
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Now you might say that this is just coincidence, but I don't think 
so.
 
Also a foreshadowing of events on the tower:
HBP (page 512 US): "But he understood at last what Dumbledore had 
been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between 
being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and 
walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, 
perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two 
ways, but Dumbledore knew-- and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush 
of fierce pride, and so did my parents--that there was all the 
difference in the world."

Bible: Jesus went willing with the guards that came for him. He told 
his followers to put away their swords.  He then said "do you think 
that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this 
moment with more than twelve legions of angels?"  

I think this is an answer to the person here who asked why DD didn't 
call for the house elves.  The house elves could have come to his 
rescue with their own magic. Remember that Dobby overpowered Lucius 
Malfoy and Malfoy seemed a bit scared of Dobby once he was free. DD 
could easily have called for them, but did not.

HBP (p. 392 US) DD to Draco "No Draco, it is my mercy, not yours, 
that matters now".

Didn't anyone wonder what that was about? I think it makes sense if 
you see DD's death as a metaphor of the death of Christ.
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HBP:  DD is surrounded by Death Eaters. One of them is a werewolf. 

Bible:  The Psalms that are read at Good Friday say: 
"Many young bulls encircle me;
Strong bulls of Bashan surround me.

They open wide their jaws at me,
Like a ravening and a roaring lion.

I am poured out like water;
All my bones are out of joint;
My heat within my breast is melting wax.

My mouth is dried out like a pot-sherd;
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth,
And you have laid me in the dust of the grave.

Packs of dogs close me in,
And gangs of evildoers circle around me
"
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HBP: After DD's death the glass Gryffindor hour glass had been hit 
by a curse and the rubies were falling out onto the floor.  

Some had suggested that this meant that this was the death rattle of 
Hogwarts.  I suggest that it might also be the disguised version of 
the "veil in the temple being torn in two", which happened at the 
death of Jesus.  Or maybe we will see that later, since we have a 
veil in the MoM in the books. 

Of course there is the obvious of Fawkes and his singing over DD's 
body.

Tonks_op