ChapDisc - DH 16, Godric's Hollow

[bdclark0423]

No: HPFGUIDX 182231

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:

Zara:
> ... but where is it written? On a tombstone. I think 
> that makes all the difference.
> 
> Unless one has a pretty dark and twisted sense of humor, one would 
not 
> put a slogan about prolonging *this* life on the grave marker of the 
> dear departed. Hence, the line must be expressing an idea that is 
still 
> relevant - a hope or faith that the undeniable fact of the death of 
> those buried beneath, is not final.
>

bdclark0423 says:
good point, but remember in the mirror of erised, Harry still sees his 
parents there beside him, so to him he doesn't consider them 
conquering death, but rather conquered by death and therefore 
unavailable to him.  Hence his questioning.

This is all part of the self-centered notion that what a person has, 
should be entitled to them.  Voldy's big mistake, he believes his life 
is his.  

Physical life can only conclude in physical death.  Harry is not yet 
at this point to realize this for himself.
bdclark0423.