Within the world of Harry Potter I think the Malfoy's realization that they care about their family far more than they care about conquering the world or wiping out the mudbloods and going neutral is supposed to be at least semi-redemptive.
Ah yes, and exactly that's what is getting on my nerves about the coda, or as someone put it before: Everyone's become Weasley, at the end. Of course, realising they really love their familiy is a big step for the Malfoys, but is having a familiy generally the greatest step for all mankind? It certainly is for Harry, as he's never had the chance to live with his parents, but what about the rest of the wizarding world? I didn't think that Ron and Hermione were of the family-kind, e.g. - wouldn't it have been more fitting if they travelled around the world for intellectual and other adventures?
The other thing that's annoying me is about the Hallows: So having them all means to be master of death. So Harry had them all, or at least two of them, when he set off to let himself be murdered - as we didn't know the bit about the Elder Wand's true master, then (at least I hadn't worked it out). Of course I reckoned that by reunion of all three items, Harry would indeed be able to conquer death - and we could have been spared that strange stuff with his mother's protection living on in Voldemort, about which I somehow missed the point. I mean, why intdroducing all that Deathly Hallow-stuff, when at the end they are not really important for the final battle?
I liked the fact that the old Snape-Lily-theory proved true, though, and especially that "look into my eyes"-dying-scene, which nearly seemed like an reminiscence to some weird Harry-Snape-slash - though perhaps unintentionally...
The Harry-is-a-Horcrux-story was quite obvious to me since the last book, though I would have thought, that when his attack on Harry went wrong and Voldemort felt himself disembodied, he had no time to direct his soulpart into the intended object and put it into Harry, instead. That would have explained his idea that he had to kill him himself - to redirect his precious soulpart into some other vessel. Seems unlikely that he didn't feel his soul being ripped in two for a seventh time - also six horcruxes seemed to be more than dangerous, so how could he afford losing another bit of his soul at all?
The part I don't really get is what exactly is, in Potterverse, happening to the deads. Are they supposed to live on forever in some kind of otherworld, similair to the ghosts, but not on this side of the veil, anymore? What about that veil, Sirius fell through, anyway? Is ist just a metaphor for the connection we have to the loved ones who passed away? When Harry used the stone, he was the only one who could see the people he called, because, as they said, they were part of him. So are they just memories, or are they still thinking for themselves? "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
Time to get philosophical? |
