The Overarching message

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Dear List

OK, then from the mundane to the transcendent. What is the over-arching message Rowling is giving us in Harry Potter?

And do your agree with it, can see it but have doubts, reject it?

I will advance the proposition it's a metaphorical disquisition on humanity, that is, what it is to be human, and the essence of what it is to be human is love. Not just "a mothers love" which in its sacrificial form protects Harry Potter time and again, but love in many ways and levels which matures and broadens the individual and reaches adulthood through its engaging in "love" in various forms and styles between people. Humans, she says- love. There is a mothers love, but there is also the "Beatrice and Benedict" tack between Ron and Hermione, the romance of other students, including Draco and Pansy, and love of friends and institutions outside of the personal.
Voldemort is the ultimate love-less creature and loves no one but himself (and we're not even too sure about that). He is the eternal immature, always positing an ego of wants of the moment, and thus Rowling has case him in barely human form, such to suggest a book appropriately bound.

Otto