I have at last--at very long last!--finished and posted the seventh part of the seven-part essay on Symbolism in Harry Potter that I first posted on April 1st, 2005:

https://angua9.livejournal.com/2005/04/01/

First, I must thank the kind anonymous person who recently gifted me with 6 months of paid LiveJournal time. My icons came back!!

I suspect the generous giver was responding to my role in l'affaire Msscribe, which recently received renewed attention thanks to this hour-long YouTube video:

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In accordance with my April 1st tradition, I have resumed my symbolism background and posted an essay on symbolism ( Read more... )

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code
Part 3: The Structural Framework
Part 4: The Characters and Concepts
Part 5: The Chemical Wedding
Part 6: The Heart of It All
Part 7A: Nineteen Years Later...

Part 7: Epilogue Section B

“What I always mentally refer to as the big seven - which is Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, ( Read more... )

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code
Part 3: The Structural Framework
Part 4: The Characters and Concepts
Part 5: The Chemical Wedding
Part 6: The Heart of It All

Part 7: Epilogue Section A

the locket . . . the cup . . . the snake . . . something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's . . .

( You were the seventh Horcrux, Harry, the Horcrux he never meant to make. )

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code
Part 3: The Structural Framework
Part 4: The Characters and Concepts
Part 5: The Chemical Wedding

Part 6: The Heart of It All


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Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code
Part 3: The Structural Framework
Part 4: The Characters and Concepts

Part 5: The Chemical Marriage
After the death of my parents, I Nicholas Flamel, got my living by the art of writing, ingrossing and the like, and in the course of time there fell into my hands a gilded book, very old and large ( Read more... )

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code
Part 3: The Structural Framework

Part 4: The Characters and Concepts
The number seven is the number of completeness and totality - it is the sum of three (the number of the heavens - the triple goddess, the trinity) and four (the number of the earth which has four corners, four elements, four ( Read more... )

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Key to the Code

Part 3: The Structural Framework
We came to the foot of a noble castle, seven times circled by high walls, defended round about by a fair streamlet. This we passed as if hard ground; through seven gates I entered with these sages; we came to a meadow of fresh verdure ( Read more... )

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: The Key to the Code
Why does his work have to be an enigma at all ( Read more... )