Harry Potter & Quote of the Day
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dangermousieI just found this and fell for it like a ton of bricks:
"Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. It is for this reason that love becomes the ultimate human answer to the ultimate human question. Love, in reason's terms, answers nothing. We say that Amor vincit omnia but in truth love conquers nothing—certainly not death—certainly not chance. What love does is to arm. It arms the worth of life in spite of life."
Archibald MacLeish
I got this quote from this really fascinating and long thread on the role of love (not romantic, or just romantic, but all sorts) in Harry Potter. Go here to read it.
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I am also feeling an urge to write a HP fanfic (my second in that fandom). I really want to write about "The Lost Generation" of HP: all those people we see in Snape's Pensieve, all the ones showing off, or joking, or bullying, or being bullied or just sitting around or not even there: their lives just got totally destroyed by Voldemort's war.
Just the thought of all that promise and talent and youth going to waste...All the characters who get a bare mention: all the Order members who were killed, or DEs who were killed or imprisoned.
James and Lily who were young and really talented and just started a family. Sirius, who was not only strong willed enough to break from his horrible family, but also apparently a powerful wizard, and it all went to waste anyway. His brother Regulus, whether he was the defiant R.A.B. or just a clueless guy who got in too far and panicked (or both). Lupin who just keeps on losing and losing.
And whether Snape is the evil traitor or a really messed-up triple agent, his life is also destroyed by the War. If it wasn't for it, he'd just be somewhere inventing his potions, not damning his soul.
Even the horrendous Peter Pettigrew. In other times he'd probably have a pretty unremarkable life.
Horrible circumstances seem to bring out the best in some (Harry, James & Lily, Sirius) and the worst in others (Peter, the DE).
"Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. It is for this reason that love becomes the ultimate human answer to the ultimate human question. Love, in reason's terms, answers nothing. We say that Amor vincit omnia but in truth love conquers nothing—certainly not death—certainly not chance. What love does is to arm. It arms the worth of life in spite of life."
Archibald MacLeish
I got this quote from this really fascinating and long thread on the role of love (not romantic, or just romantic, but all sorts) in Harry Potter. Go here to read it.
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I am also feeling an urge to write a HP fanfic (my second in that fandom). I really want to write about "The Lost Generation" of HP: all those people we see in Snape's Pensieve, all the ones showing off, or joking, or bullying, or being bullied or just sitting around or not even there: their lives just got totally destroyed by Voldemort's war.
Just the thought of all that promise and talent and youth going to waste...All the characters who get a bare mention: all the Order members who were killed, or DEs who were killed or imprisoned.
James and Lily who were young and really talented and just started a family. Sirius, who was not only strong willed enough to break from his horrible family, but also apparently a powerful wizard, and it all went to waste anyway. His brother Regulus, whether he was the defiant R.A.B. or just a clueless guy who got in too far and panicked (or both). Lupin who just keeps on losing and losing.
And whether Snape is the evil traitor or a really messed-up triple agent, his life is also destroyed by the War. If it wasn't for it, he'd just be somewhere inventing his potions, not damning his soul.
Even the horrendous Peter Pettigrew. In other times he'd probably have a pretty unremarkable life.
Horrible circumstances seem to bring out the best in some (Harry, James & Lily, Sirius) and the worst in others (Peter, the DE).
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Date: 2005-09-02 05:02 am (UTC)On a tangential note, I was listening to a report on NPR today where they interviewed some of the Russian children who were survivors of that horrible school take-over and massacre. One little boy said he got through the experience by imagining that Harry Potter was his best friend and came to help him escape and save the other children. Makes me cry again just typing this :-(
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