[HPforGrownups] The Overarching message

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 191578

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:35 AM, <sigurd at eclipse.net> wrote:
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> Dear List
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> OK, then from the mundane to the transcendent. What is the over-arching message Rowling is giving us in Harry Potter?
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> And do your agree with it, can see it but have doubts, reject it?

I remember thinking, after finishing Book 7, "Why, all these books are
about Death, aren't they?  Starting with the first one, even."  Or
possibly more specifically, as another famous fantasy author said of
his work, they are about death and the desire for deathlessness.

Mind you, that is not *all* they are about, but it is certainly a
consistent theme throughout.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>