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RL Date: 12/19/09
IC Date: 7/21/19 --To save time, I stole this log from T'rev.

( Quite the, uhmn, compliment. For an apprentice. )

RL Date: 12/17/09
IC Date: 7/5/21 --Snagged the last pose off of T'rev's log.

( If the dress does what it's supposed to... )

I'll be away for the holidays next week. We'll be leaving on Monday and coming back either Sunday or Monday. I'll have laptop and Blackberry access for checking in, but I won't be around for roleplay at all during this venture. I will be around at least one day this weekend to RP, so drop me a line if we need/want a scene!

Happy holidays. :)

 I said earlier in a post that I thought JKR ought to be named an honorary "Inkling."  I'm even more convinced of that now. I've been playing some of the characters on a MU* and reading copious amounts of fan fiction, but I keep thinking about her characters.  The books are not about the magic or the wizarding world on the whole.  They do a great job of creating a world very close to home but foreign enough for us to feel that pull of fantasy.  No.  The books are about the young, struggling hero who has to make his way in a world he cannot understand, muddling through until he finds the path Fate sets out for him.  

Harry is this generation's Dr. Ransom.  Its Frodo.  Humble beginnings, drawn into a world where things are completely foreign and new.  No one can explain it to him, but he's expected to bear the brunt of it on very young, very inexperienced shoulders.  Ransom isn't young chronologically, but in some ways, especially in the light of the dialog he has with the Queen, he's very young. 

Voldemort is obviously the Unman, or Sauron. I mean, disembodied eye or selling, staining and splitting your soul for power.  Sauron sold it for a ring, supposed to give immortality.  Weston gave his over to the Enemy to  gain the same and the power of Demons.  Voldemort just killed and used the darkest magics to keep himself alive because he feared death. 

There are other tenuous parallels, perhaps, but those are the ones that really stuck out to me.

The power that the young man uses isn't tangible nor magical.  It's sheer bullheadedness, the willingness to die to make and keep the world right.  It's agape.  In my opinion, the very center of the Great Dance.  Something I've been thinking about this week for other reasons.  

I know a lot of people are unwilling to read the HP books because they are about "witchcraft."  That's quite understandable.  It's your call. However, I have found a depth in the series, especially in the later books that shows me that it's not primarily about what the characters can do as much as who they are.   Several of the characters even say that. 

I'm pretty sure that Tolkien and Lewis were not well received by their contemporaries because of the weirdness of their books. Now, we take it in stride, especially since they've written other things, and time has gone by.  I think Rowling will prove to be in the same category soon.  If she isn't already.