The Scar

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 160258

bboymin:
I'm not even convinced Harry will lose his magic power,
but it is a theory, and I was responding within the
framework of that premise.

doug:
I'm working this out on the fly, as it is  a collection of related  
thoughts, not a worked-out idea

How many young men actually lost their lives in two great wars? so  
many at 17 or 18. I think this is part of the British zeitgeist, if  
you will. This kind of thought haunts a nations consciousness. I  
suspect there is some underlying notion in this series that may  
address this theme.

Rowling knows that there are only seven books in the story. There  
must be a really good reason to finish it.

Isn't magic and wish fulfillment really an adolescent conception of  
the world? and so Harry comes of age... isn't the thought that 'I'll  
never die' an adolescent idea? The adolescent brain is very different  
from adult brains.

IF Harry has a bit of  Voldy!soul and loses his powers isn't this a  
sense of him actually becoming an adult, a human being rather than an  
adolescent fantasy of power and will controlling the world? Is it a  
story about that kind of growing up?

The loss of 'powers' may metaphorically be about that kind of thing.

On the whole though, as you say it would be bittersweet, whatever  
would happen after the scar... It may be a world of childhood, a  
world of magic Harry can never get back to. Harry may be blessed with  
an Obliviate to enable him to actually live a human life in a Muggle  
world, so that the 'memory's' of magical power to Harry!Muggle would  
be like a book he read, like comics, like running around with a towel  
on your back flying.

Of course I, and all of us, want Harry to continue happily with his  
own magic in the wizarding world. (Will we grow up?) But Rowling also  
needs a *satisfactory* way to close off the story. Harry losing his  
powers seems more satisfactory than his dying to most of us, but  
still not the completely happy ending we all want.

I don't want Rowling to go there. I want her to pull something out of  
her hat that we can't possibly have thought of.

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