Hallows / Prophecy / Anarchy / Greek Tragedy

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Xenophilius Lovegood's notion that seekers of the Deathly Hallow
identify themselves in hope of finding other DH seekers to aid them in
the quest is one of his craziest ideas. Only one person at a time can
own a Hallow, so only one person at a time can own all three and thus
be Master of Death, and it seems most DH seekers would rather kill a
fellow seeker (i.e. a competitor) than assist him/her.

Anyway, I don't think DD's plan to die as undefeated owner of the
Deathstick, and once he was dead no one could defeat him, and that
would take the Deathstick out of play, is a sound plan. If Grindelwald
defeated Gregorovitch and became owner of the wand just by stealing
it, dead DD could be defeated and the wand pass to new ownership by
someone stealing it from his tomb, just as LV thought. 

Dave wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/4986>:

<< I think this symmetry is what the Prophecy is driving at. However,
it seems the exact opposite of what it states: "Neither can live while
the other survives." It seems more accurate that neither can die while
the other survives. >>

The Prophecy says 'live', which I absolutely cannot figure out,
instead of 'die', which was pretty much what I was expecting from the
time from the end of PS/Ss when DD said Harry was too young to be told
why LV attacked him: that there is a Prophecy that Harry is the only
one who can kill LV but killing LV requires him to die in the process.
Do you think it is for the same reason that TMR was Slytherin's last
'ancestor' instead of 'descendent'? In which case, asserting that she
and Trelawney had worded the Prophecy 'very carefully' was not a
correct statement.

Mike Gray wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/4991>:

<< In that sense I would see her more as an anarchist manqué than a
libertarian. >>

The word 'Libertarian' originates as meaning one who believes in
'liberty', but has been captured by a kind of right-wing anarchist
philosophy. To that extent, the Libertarian Party *are* anarchists
manqué. Sam Konkin (Samuel Edward Konkin III, who had his own
right-wing anarchist extremist nut cult) used to call them
'Partyarchs' and call them very vicious things, such as 'statist
hypocrites'.

Nora wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/4994>:

<< Greek tragedy (which was a remarkably short-lived genre) >>

I read somewhere someone wrote that the theatrical genre of tragedy
flourishes only where a still rich and powerful aristocracy realizes
it is losing its wealth and power to a merchant class.