Re: What’s the point of the Deathly Hallows? Not the book, but the Hallows?

[Ashley]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" <arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Wotcher Lyn.
> How's it going?

Hi Barry,
Guess I always had fun trying to find the "truth" in the HP world, but when the "world" 
began to lawlessly transform to meet JKR's need of the moment, there hasn't seemed 
much point to the quest.

> 
> Potter working for the good of others....
> I don't see that as his primary motivation, he's more emotionally
> involved than that - to him, everything is *personal* in the broadest 
> possible sense.


As is usually the case, your comments coincide with my take on things, and express them 
than I do. I think what you describe does fit HP through 98% of the series. It  is in the last 
2% that I think JKR had Harry change course. Indeed, I believe so many of the revelations 
about DD were to have HP's sacrifice occur for the good of others, rather than just to 
please DD. I think JKR's sense of maturity is a Christian informed, Amnesty International 
worker defined construct, and that is what she brought to HP at the end. Not my cup of 
tea, but that is my sense of things after a whirlwind reading. I'll be quite content to have it 
prove otherwise, as it is a bit saccharin for me. 

I had a fairly enjoyable ride in the quick reading of DH, but at the end, it leaves me quite 
cold. Such promise unrealized. Though I still think we have not seen the last Harry. 
Leaving that ring left on the ground to be found by someone at some future time, and 
having no small number of Wizard folk aware that the Elder Wand exists and they are just 
a dead HP away from obtaining its power, strikes me as a author very much leaving the 
door open for some future return. It's not something I particulary long for (though I once 
would have), but put me down for making the prediction.