In re: Chapdisc PS/SS 1

[zfshiruba]

No: HPFGUIDX 187712


> 2. Why do you think Dumbledore just left Harry with a note,
> instead of actually talking to the Dursleys?

> Alorkin wrote:
> Dumbledore needed a martyr.  He knew he was incapable of destroying Voldemort on his own and so he needed someone who could.  Moreover, he needed a totally loyal minion who saw hi in the light of an archangel, and who would be willing to sacrifice himself.  In the military recruits are first insulted, humiliated, beaten on occasion and worked until they drop, in order to destroy any individuality they might posses.  (we were in the Marine Corps.)  It's called 'behavioral programming and is used in military's the world over.   Sound familiar?

zfshiruba: Yes, which makes Harry a child soldier, which is one of many reasons I always want to kill Dumbledore myself by the end of Philosopher's Stone.



> 3. Why do you think Harry's scar was shaped like a lightning bolt?
>
> alorkin:
> This takes some supposition.  Dumbledore says Lily's sacrifice was what protected Harry, but didn't James sacrifice himself every bit as much to allow his wife and child to escape?  Instead, I believe that Lily used some blood magic of her own.  Sowilo, is the viking rune for 'power/protection/strength'  What if she had prepared a ritual to protect Harry and her last act was to paint that rune on his forehead in her blood?  Perhaps that rune, combined with her blood and her willing sacrifice was what it took to reflect death.

zfshiruba: Sowilo is also a sun rune; Harry is intricately connected to the sun in so many other ways (Harry Potter's Astrological Chart by Witherwings [Lexicon Essay]) It does seem fitting.