speculation

[amelia_petkova]

Sometimes I go brain-dead at work, but today I had an interesting thought about a parellel between Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.



I'm focusing on the deaths or Aslan and Harry. Both of them die and come back to life. We don't know what Aslan's time during death was like, but we witness Harry's conversation with Dumbledore about whether he can choose to come back to life or stay dead. He's allowed to choose because he allowed Voldemort to kill him. And as Aslan tells Susan and Lucy, (about the White Witch) "But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward."

My question is, Was Rowling thinking of the above Narnia scene when she wrote the scene between Harry and Dumbledore?

Comments

[titivillus32.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. It's a fairly common Jesus-style theme - traced back into all the great stories.

Hercules went to Hades
Odysseus too.
Lyra and Will in HDM
etc. etc. etc.

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

I think it catches my attention because they are both children's fantasy novels.