This is a response to
Andreia De Freita’s recent post “Harry Potter and the Fear of Death”:
Andreia De Freita’s
post:
I am a huge harry
potter fan myself, so when I see the title, “Harry Potter and the Fear of Death”,
I just feel so interested to read it. All the books in Harry Potter series show
the same storyline, which is the battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. In
these stories, Harry is fighting against Voldemort, the monster, as well as against death.
Voldemort could be
seen as a “monster” figure, he is half-life wizard, he was human, and became a
sort of monster when he split his soul into various parts in order to get immortality.
Although he is not belonged to any unversally known “monster” groups, and he is certainly not
attempting to get any redemption. This makes me think about how should we define “monsters” in Christianity
anyway, I think maybe hybrid of good and evil is a way to do it.
The monsters motif in
popular culture always come with death, they are threatening, and they are
pronouns of death. In Harry Potter series, especially the last several books,
the death is everywhere in the novel. Voldemort killed lots of people for his
own eternal life. People sacrificed for his fear of death, this makes the death
becomes meaningful while the immortality becomes meaningless. The whole signal
of death and fear of death came out with the theme in Harry Pottery.
As Freita said, in
Christianity, lots of elements in Harry Potter are not welcomed, such as the
magic, escaping from death or even “live” his half-life because he committed an
act against nature. But popular culture seems build up a connection with those conflicts,
brings things which seems never will be existed on same stage into one theme.
The death motif in popular culture has productive function for being presented, as
well as the monsters, learning from them, we understand what is being alive,
and we understand what is being human.
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