ext_23442 ([identity profile] woman-ironing.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sistermagpie 2007-07-25 11:31 pm (UTC)

Re: Hello!

Well, you are always yourself but individuation is the process of understanding yourself, and is likely to make you decide to change some of the things you're doing.

In fact, though, Harry had something more than in PS - his blood in Voldemort's veins. You could also say that at Godric's Hollow it was Lily's love that saved Harry, while in DH it was Harry's love that saved him. Harry does have greater understanding in DH than in PS, as he shows in his conversation with Voldemort. He is essentially the same Harry, though, and this was signalled in PS( I'm always saying this, lol!) when he looked in the mirror to see himself finding the philosopher's stone and saw that he already had it.

After HBP I eventually thought that the story would quite literally end at the beginning, back in Godric's Hollow. (A couple of weeks ago I even posted an essay about it, sigh!) It didn't, but it was circular, ending with Voldemort's Avada Kedavra rebounding on him as it had at the beginning, and Harry not wanting to use the elder wand as he hadn't wanted to use the stone in PS.

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