[HPforGrownups] Re: The Prophecy

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 174990

>  Tonks:
>  Intuitively it seems to me that another way to look at this is by
>  looking at what LV and Harry symbolize.
>
>  'He will mark him as his equal..' Remember the part about the
>  brother who owned the invisibility cloak? He took the clock off and
>  walked with death 'as an equal'.
>
>  LV as a symbol of Death can not live fully… that is he can not win
>  the battle as long as someone is still alive. On the other hand
>  Harry representing humankind can not live (meaning live forever) as
>  long as death exist. There is a balance between them. Death is only
>  defeated by the sacrifice of Love. By being willing to die Harry has
>  won what LV tried to have. As Hermione tells us in the graveyard at
>  GH, it is not the type of victory over death that LV envisioned, it
>  is of another type. It is a Christ type victory. Death is now
>  defeated and Harry has eternal life. Not life on earth forever, but
>  eternal life in the spiritual sense.

Kemper now:
I've never bought into the idea that LV was the symbol of Death, which
is a a part of Life.  Rather, I see him as the symbol of Fear.  DD
described LV as being afraid of the unknown.

Harry is the symbol of Life made more obvious by his 'death'.  He did
not go unwanded into the forest to sacrifice himself and face
Humanity's greatest unknown so that others would live.  He faced the
unknown so that others could and would live to face their fears,
whether real (Molly losing a child to the Dark Lord) or imagined (Ron
losing Hermione to Harry).

The Hallows and the Horcruxes: objects man made out of fear.
Death is not evil.  It's what makes living so valuable... if you don't
live in fear which is just existing.

imao,
Kemper