King's Cross railway station dream

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No: HPFGUIDX 176244

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> "He killed me with your wand."
> "He failed to kill you with my wand," Dumbledore corrected
Harry. "I
> think we can agree that you are not dead..."
> (ibid. p.570)
>
> This doesn't entirely help the analysis, except that it rules out
purgatory
> - which I wouldn't expect from JKR since she is a Protestant and
not a
> Catholic. The oddity is that it is a place where Harry can decide
to go on
> or go back...
>
> I think I shall have to cop out and fall back on Shakespeare:
> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are
dreamt of
> in your philosophy."
> (Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5)
>
> Perhaps JKR is a Star Trek fan like me. :-)

Star Trek too is a series where philosophical questions crop up in
nearly every episode. The Shakespeare quote is apt too. This is part
of the attraction of the HP books is it not, they make us think. As
do LOTR, the Narnia books and His Dark Materials.

I just used the term 'Purgatory' in the sense of an 'expiatory'
journey, is that a better term? Rather than the formal Catholic
doctrine. I too come from a Protestant tradition and have been a
practising Christian in the past but less so now regretably. I was
just trying to fit the KC scene into the image from the book of some
kind of journey after death, perhaps stretching the image of a place
to start a journey further than JKR intended. Also from a need to
find some kind of salvation for Snape which seems ommitted. He
doesn't even get a funeral, in fact as far as the book goes his body
is just left in the Shrieking Shack, even Voldemort's body got laid
in a side room. Snape just seems to be abandoned by all, ignored.

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