That ugly baby thing.

[Annette]

No: HPFGUIDX 173608

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Jim Ferer wrote: 
> > I took it like this: Harry and Voldemort are both at the border
> > between this world and the next - the "on." 
> <snip>
> 
> I don't think the "ugly baby thing" at Kings Cross can be the bit 
of 
> soul from Voldemort's body (the bit he calls "I"), because that is 
the 
> part which is still tied to earth by the Nagini Horcrux. For that 
> reason, even though LV collapsed in the Forest like Harry did, he 
could 
> not have had the same near-death experience.  That's why I feel 
sure 
> the fetal thing under the chair is the soul-bit that had been 
attached 
> to Harry, and it "came along for the ride" with him.
> 
> Annemehr

Cariad:

Thank you for the responses to this interesting thread that Sandra 
started. I can see that this baby is a representation of the evilness 
of LV's soul, whether or not it is the horcrux baby that Harry 
became, I'm not sure. The disturbing images of St Michael and the 
baby about to be crushed are new to me. I guess that these images are 
in a Traditional Catholic iconography as they deal with Original Sin, 
a concept which I don't know much about.

I read the scene in GOF again re. LV's rebirth in the cauldron and I 
can see the similarities, thanks to whoever pointed that out. At the 
first time of reading I thought it was some sort of sacrificial 
animal.

Certainly, as much as 'Kings Cross' is a time where Harry is 
enlightened, this for me proves one of the darkest passages in the 
book. 

cariad.
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