Epilogue/ Horcruxes and Hallows

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 183379

Alla:
> Let me try to explain, to me horcruxes, hallows were nothing more 
> than technicalities, to some extent superficial means with which JKR 
> will tell story about people in Potterverse. I am not asking you to 
> agree with me, but as much as I hated horcruxes per se, I certainly 
> understood before DH that horcruxes are great technical means to tell 
> the story about Harry's sacrifice and while I of course was never 
> sure that Harry is a horcrux, I certainly thought it was a 
> possibility precisely for that reason.
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> I do not believe that she ever intended to story be **about** either 
> Horcruxes or Hallows, if that makes sense.

Jen: That's what I think too, that the Hallows especially were meant to 
be more symbolic & tied to the theme of death than a plot to get 
Voldemort killed.  They were that too of course, a vehicle to make it 
possible for the younger & less powerful Harry to destroy Voldemort, 
but the reason why Voldemort died & Harry lived was primarily about 
human emotions and how each approached death rather than the objects 
involved.  

I found the storyline clunky at times though, particularly the whole 
wand order thing at the end that took away from a powerful moment in 
HBP with Draco/Dumbledore on the tower.  If only that moment could have 
remained symbolic as well, not simply a way for Harry to take 
possession of the Elder wand!  I felt let down by that moment in DH, 
thought JKR reneged on a really moving piece of writing from the tower 
scene.  Now I realize it was likely only moving in my own mind and was 
merely a plot device in hers.