Alchemy Yet Again

[Annemehr]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:

> 
> How about Hagrid gets the chop trying to ensure the phoenix reaches 
> Harry at some crucial moment, and then both Harry and Fawkes snuff it 
> together in some final scene where they vanquish Voldie? Then Fawkes 
> of course is reborn, and soars away bearing purified soul of Harry, 
> finally cleansed of Voldie bits and bobs?
> 
> Aah. Heartwarming ain't it....
>

Mmmmm...a refreshing breeze of cynicism.

But, nah.  Rowling isn't that sort of infantile alchemist any more than 
she's a Christian evangelist, I'm sure.  

And, well... the surface story might very well *be* heartwarming -- but 
she's practically promised us a subversive subtext.  We can but hope 
that her idea of what that might be is worth seven books and some 
seventeen(?) years in the telling.

I do agree that Hagrid's toast though.  I'm going to bet it has 
something to do with being Keeper of the Keys.

Anne