[HPforGrownups] Snake Lore

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 161713

On 11/19/06, k12listmomma <k12listmomma at comcast.net> wrote:
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>   It seems to be that she already made use of this part with the real
> Basilisk- Harry, when plunging the Gryffindor sword into the Basilisk, was
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> also poisoned at the same time by the fang. The poison was deadly and it
> would have killed him, if it were not for the presence of Fawkes. My son
> also points out that the "horse" is the diary, which the poisoned fang
> also
> destroyed. The diary is the thing that brought him to that spot
> (indirectly-
> leading him to Hagrid, which lead him to the spiders, then to the forest
> with Aragog, then to the knowledge of the girl killed, and then to the
> bathroom where she died, and to the entrance of the chamber).
>

Debbie:
I think this is not a true parallel of the Basilisk legend.  If it was, the
poison would have reached Harry through the sword.  The wound Harry received
from the basilisk's fang was separate and independent of the slaying.  Also,
the horse doesn't really parallel the diary, because the diary was an ally
of the basilisk, whereas the horse belonged to the slayer of the basilisk.
I do agree that Fawkes has already acted the part of the deity in the holy
man and the deity legend.  Harry could not have killed the basilisk without
the sword Fawkes brought him, nor would he have survived without Fawkes'
phoenix tears.

Perhaps the events in the Chamber of Secrets foreshadow what will happen in
Harry's final confrontation with Voldemort.  Harry vanquished a piece of
Voldemort (the diary horcrux) in a series of events that read like a
death-and-resurrection scenario.  Although I don't think JKR is writing an
allegory (at least consciously), the parallels to the Christian Easter story
are striking -- descent into hell, then conquering death and rising again.
Harry even uses Fawkes, a standard Christian resurrection symbol, to escape
from the Chamber.  I can't help but think that the final confrontation will
incorporate some of these elements.

As for a location, I'm (finally) warming to the idea of bringing Voldemort
to the Veil Room whereupon Harry will somehow force him to step through the
veil.

Debbie
finishing up before she starts speculating wildly






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