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   Message 129,766 of 130,933   
   Chan Welbourne to All   
   Re: Ring Composition In Deathly Hallows    
   16 Jul 11 15:03:25   
   
   From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   VD brought next idea :   
   > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:49:32 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
      
   >> VD pretended :   
   >>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:35:52 -0400, Sirius Black wrote:   
   >>>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:29:39 -0400, VD wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:06:22 -0700 (PDT), Benjamin Esham wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> * I felt much more nostalgic for the SS/PS days at the end of this movie   
   >>>>>>   than I did at the end of the book. I think it's because the epilogue   
   >>>>>> in   the book is given from Harry's perspective, and so we mostly see   
   >>>>>> how  he's   changed, while the movie still shows pretty much the same   
   >>>>>> scene we  had in   the very first movie. It's easy to mentally replace   
   >>>>>> that  long-haired kid   with 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe--and not least   
   >>>>>> because  of the music!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Did you notice how Harry put Albus and Rose on the train to Hogwarts   
   >>>>> beginning again the sequence of the Albus "white" Rose (Rosicrucian)   
   >>>>> initiation...the seekers journey?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Food for thought ;)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There you go all Christian and religio on us. lol Bannister will have   
   >>>> an atheistic hissy.   
   >>   
   >>> I am positive Mr. Bannister will be fine. ;>)   
   >>> Following the alchemical structure isn't a Christian effort. It's a   
   >>> liturgical one, the alchemical story can be allegorically ensnared in   
   >>> any belief set as long as that set follows the seeker's   
   >>> transfiguration of his soul.   
   >>   
   >>> It's not my fault Ms. Rowling is an ascribed Christian. ;)   
   >>   
   >> You can't miss the alchemical approach and yopu can't miss the film's   
   >> use of sequences from the earlier films either. Nice cohesiveness, I   
   >> enjoyed this.   
      
   > Ring Composition:   
      
   > 1) the Potter series and each novel have beginnings and ends that meet   
   > up.   
      
   > 2) the books are centered; i.e. they return to the question raised in   
   > the beginning and answer that question in the end.   
      
   > 3) each book  has its mirrored image or “reverse   
   > echo” in the book or chapter on the opposite side of the story divide.   
      
   > ABC|D|CBA   
      
   > Ms. Rowling follows very closely the lead of other alchemical writers;   
   > ring composition is yet another proof of Ms. Rowling's alchemical   
   > approach.   
      
   HP is a much different animal that "Lord" but you probably don’t want a   
   course in alchemical literature and ring composition, so I’ll leave it   
   at that, since this is a post about the movie, not the books. :D   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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