Looking Back Question...

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 182018


 Beatrice wrote:
 Looking back at the Harry Potter series, what important message(s) or 
themes do you think are the most important in the novels?  And along 
those lines which messages and themes do you hope that readers take 
away from the series?


The power of love..kinda dull perhaps, but I think we often forget the 
power of it, and the scope and scale of love:

Familial love, love in friendship, love of community, obsessive love, 
love of power, even love of nature(bless Hagrid) etc...I must admit 
that I felt along the lines of Harry when DD kept mentioning love, but 
by the end of the series--I got it from a more Dumbledorian 
perspective!  Not the easiest thing to do in a story that is not about 
romance or family alone.

I'd also have to note that mainting the ability to laugh and enjoy the 
humor in both the mundane and complex. I can never help but chuckle to 
myself everytime I think of the twins exit from Hogwarts in OOP, or 
Harry's telling Snape that there was no need to address him as sir, or 
to all the ditties Peeves shares with us.  I'd even say that it's 
Harry's ability to see the absurdity and humor in the Dursleys 
behavior that allowed him to survive their treatment the way he did.

Of course there were more themes but these are the two most resonant 
with me.

Doddie