Harry Potter Spoilers
14 June 2007 - 29 סיון 5767 by Huw
I don’t know about you but the whole build up to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is starting to drive me nuts. I don’t mind people putting spoilers on their websites, but OMG people, the books not out yet! Wait a while. This is almost as bad as guessing who the antichrist is based on the fact that Ronald Wilson and Reagan each have six letters.
(Remember the famous “Snape Killed Dumbledore” video? I can’t find a link, but that’s more like the kind of spoiler I’d do… driving by the bookstore at midnight yelling out plot twists to freak out the geeks. I digress.)
I am looking forward to seeing “Order of the Phoenix” for there are quite a few plot twists in that one that need to be resolved in “Deathly Hallows”. And I’m wondering what the connexion might be (if any) between the “hallows” of the title and the Hallows of Britain - ie the Holy Grail. Although I don’t think any of the plot ideas of John Granger have shown up in the Potter Books, I still think his alchemical idea works. Personally I think it’s all just good story telling. She doesn’t need an ulterior plot device to be a good writer.
For those who say there is Alchemy behind the plot line, the Holy Grail figures in to that one and for those who say there is Catholicism, hey, the Holy Grail works there too! The Grail really is a link between the two. The Holy Grail came out of it’s occult background into more mundane thinking as the Roman Church started teaching the Bread = Actual Flesh. The Christian grail stories arise at the same time as “bleeding hosts” start to show up on altars.
Given Harry Potter’s function as a pagan and Christian symbol, I hope the Hallows and the Hallows are all tied together!
Did you order yours yet? :-)
