harry potter and the deathly hallows quote

if anyone else knows more about the Libation Bearers please let us know. He came back from the dead and finished the cycle that was started when Voldemort killed Lily and James. then when Harry made the choice to come back and finish Voldemort off for good, I think if this was in the ancient Greek times, the Furies wouldn’t have been able to find fault in him because Harry was the victim and had already died. First off, Harry had to carry the burden and by allowing himself to die as the sacrifice, this act poured Voldemort out of him.

I also read the points about making supplication to the Furies to quench their thirst for blood. Ron tells Harry before he sacrifes himself to the Queen on the chestboard that it’s got to be Harry that goes on. That is a running theme thru all of the HP books, even from the very start when the trio went down the trapdoor. he carries the burden even though Dumbledore never told him the full truth (just as the Chorus pushes things along for their own reasons with no explanation). Libation means “The pouring of a liquid offering as a religious ritual.”įinding that out and reading sparknotes. which I guess as a “good” English major I should go back and read at some point.

So one would think ill-advised to quote the Libation Bearers for a final HP book, knowing that the vengeance demanded by the chorus will lead to further danger. That’s what the Eumenides tell – how Orestes went to Delphi and god Apollo cleared him of all charges. He’s pursued by the goddesses of Remorse and has to be purified. Orestes has a lot of troubles after killing his mum, because it is a terrible crime. What I don’t understand, though, is that the trilogy has a third part – Eumenides. And the gods of the afterlife approve of Orestes, and he finally kills his own mother. That’s why the chorus says that ‘the cure is in the house’ – house means the royal family – no outsider can avenge Agamemnon. The second part, Libation Bearers, tells about Orestes’ return as a young man, both to claim to throne and to avenge his father’s death. This is told in the first play of the trilogy. Her daughter Electra sent away in secret her younger brother, Orester, because she was afraid that her mum would kill him too. The story goes back a few generations, the whole family was cursed, but what interests us here is that while king Agamemnon was in Troy, his wife Clitemnestra took a lover and seized power. As far as I can tell you, the tale of Orestes is one of the darkest myth in Greece.

Harry potter and the deathly hallows quote