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Einsjam believes in tolerance as well as in the freedom of expression. The following article is intended to explore the mysterious side of the novels and Einsjam has nothing to do with people's beliefs and ideas which they hold sacrosanct. If there is anything in the article that hurts others feelings then Einsjam apologizes.
After I finished reading Harry potter, for one day I was in a kind of silent sorrow. It was as if I had been led away from the magical world, I was sad because I won’t be in Hogwarts anymore , I was sad because there would be no Snape who would taunt and tease, no Fred and George to crack a joke and no Dumbledore to instill hope in you.
But then it wasn’t like that...it didn’t have to be like that.......why we have been led away from the magic world.............something's missing......
it was a sweltering afternoon in Karachi and I lay on my couch reading Harry potter 7 when suddenly a thought hit me....I grabbed a notebook and a pencil....
what I wrote ...I am copying it here..
H A L L O W S
R O W L I N G
D E A T H L Y
R O W L I N G
The title Deathly Hallows has 7 words each the writer's last-name ROWLING has also 7 letters and the book is the 7th and the last book of the series
JKR says that 7 is regarded as the most powerful magical number
Harry was born in the 7th month of the year
7 obstacles to reach the Philosopher's stone
7 keyholes in Moody’s trunk.
Then the last page of the 7th book is 607.........has seven "7" in it
There's so much seven in this book....why? I at once sent a message to my friend on Orkut asking him to tell me the significance of 7...he sent me this reply...
"The Seven has had symbolic significance in all early Mediterranean cultures and also in Aryan societies like India and Greece, the significance of the number itself may have evolved from ancient cosmology that was in practice in these ancient societies, Sumerian’s were masters of ancient cosmology and most of the present day standard calendar keeping that is followed in most part of the world can be traced back to the Sumerian's and seven was quite significant for them, it frequently occurs in Sumerian myths.
The Hebrew concept of seven heaven and seven deadly sins may have been borrowed from the Sumerian myths, seven days a week also was probably adopted by the Hebrews from the Sumerian (seventh being a rest day), this was later adopted by all Semitic cultures, and when Christianity spread to Europe it became part of European mythology.
Greeks gave significance to the number seven, they were the first to conceive the seven wonders of the world, so where the ancient Egyptians."
I asked myself did Rowling know that. She might have.....
Could Rowling have included so much seven in her book just as a pointer, as a clue that something is waiting to found in the text.
"Red hair symbolizes sexual energy and that's why red hair women were often suspected as witches"........I was reading a book and was on this sentence when my mind hit on something. Ginny had red hair......and wasn’t Ginny.....as Harry and Ron agreed,” to popular for her own good".....she does seem to have been very active.......and all the Weasleys have red hair and look at the size of their family....7 kids. Red hair symbolizes sexual energy..........hmm did Rowling know that........she might have....
In the sixth Harry Potter book we are given info on Helga hufflepuffs's cup which voldemort has used as a horcrux, now I did a little research and found out that the name Helga is of Scandinavian origin and it means..............guess what.........HOLY ....Helga's Cup...Holy Cup. Could it be .............the Holy Grail...??..I mean just a reference to it??...I mean the cup could have been associated to any wizard, but Rowling relates it to the one wizard whose name means HOLY.....now in the sixth Hp book we’re also told that the cup has some powers attributed it too.....just like the Holy Grail....the more I have researched the more I have become convinced that Rowling has done a vast amount of English and European folklore research while writing Harry potter...........she might have...
I noticed that Rowling has a knack of including those places in her book, which are mostly haunted or have some aura of mystery around them..., take Wiltshire for example where the Malfoy manor is located and which eventually becomes Lord Voldemort's headquarters. and I checked out the significance of Wiltshire and found out a piece of info on it on BBC...there really is a famous mansion in Wiltshire and it burned down and guess what family had amassed, over 175 years, a vast collection of works by great masters such as Poisson and Sir Joshua Reynolds........POUSSIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Has any one read Holy blood holy grail?) Ring any bells???? Could it be a clue an indication of, which side Rowling is pointing at?????... I mean why do these names keep cropping up in all those things she mentions in her books ...Wiltshire is also famous for the Stone Henge...and lots of mysterious and spooky stuff....
I thought why I don’t start a fully fledged research into this......and I dived into it...
I opened Google and googled the word Hangleton
I found out a Hangleton manor which is now a pub. there's a skull in the pubic bar and nearby the pub lies the Stagshead pub.........opposite the manor is a cottage ...interesting isn’t it........it's called rookery cottage....interestingly both are haunted.........did Rowling know about that........ She might have......
The point is Rowling has done much research in her novels and she might have put some clues in her books about something............maybe they could be just fun or maybe they do point out to something. As highlighted in the 7th book which is loaded with symbology...the tale of three brothers is considered by nearly all people as just kid's stuff but Dumbledore believes otherwise and in fact he turns out to be right so could Rowling be giving us a clue here. The whole 7th part was about the resurrection of lost knowledge.
There’s something waiting to be found.....
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