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Post by Author By Night on Feb 20, 2009 19:40:40 GMT -5
The tale that also inspired love, passion, and hate. Drama.
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Post by pigwithhair on Mar 27, 2009 19:35:25 GMT -5
I'll duck the flying fruit and admit that I didn't care for this one so much. I've argued with a friend over this already, so I know I'm in the minority, but the youngest brother hiding under the Invisibility Cloak bothered me. I didn't see that as accepting death's victory ultimately or of cheating death. I mean, he had to have lived his whole life under that cloak until he was ready to die, right? Not much of a life, if you ask me. Nope. I didn't care for this one.
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Post by vegablack on Mar 28, 2009 11:01:24 GMT -5
Well this is a fairy tale. So the characters don't follow the logic of normal life. (Like a witch having a house made of candy in the woods. Wouldn't there be bits of leaf, flies, gnats, and seeds stuck to the sticky candy house?)
Psyche has no problem with her invisible lover, Cupid in the old myth. I figure the brother by the logic of fairy tale still had a full life while invisible.
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Post by queenie on Mar 30, 2009 1:17:54 GMT -5
But that invisibility itself became treacherous - Cupid couldn't trust Psyche fully, and she couldn't trust him fully, and their relationship fell apart because of it. Harry, Ron, and Hermione often have good reasons to become invisible, but they have to pursue their goals in secrecy and treachery. The witch in a candy house in the woods is supposed to be an aberration, as I understand it - you can't live in a candy house, it's a sign of evil. You can't hide from your problems forever under an invisibility cloak.
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Post by birdg on Apr 2, 2009 5:54:01 GMT -5
Yeah but I don't know if Ignotius did hide forever. I mean, he stopped hiding long enough to have a son that he eventually passed the cloak onto.
I don't think you can take "The Tale of the Three Brothers" literally. It's a parable. The eldest brother (Voldy) was a braggart who wanted power, the middle brother (Dumbledore) was stuck in the past and never moved on and the youngest brother (Harry) wanted to avoid trouble and moved on with his life.
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Post by vegablack on Apr 2, 2009 20:06:20 GMT -5
Yes, Voldemort sought the elder wand and was killed by it. Dumbledore tried to claim the stone and was poisoned by the ring it was kept in and would have been killed by the poison had Snape not killed him first. Harry kept the cloak and went on to live and father children; something neither of the others did except figuratively.
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Post by birdg on Apr 3, 2009 6:31:08 GMT -5
And thanks to VegaBlack , I just realized that the tale of the middle brother applies to Snape just as much as it does Dumbledore. Huh.
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Post by vegablack on Apr 17, 2009 0:19:46 GMT -5
yeah that last request of his to look into Harry's eyes was an echo of the second brother.
I think his original plan to save Lilly but not Harry and James would have created a sort of walking dead Lilly. He might have had her around but like the second brother not in any form that he wanted.
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