Story opens in the
town of the Riddle family years after the Riddles are all found dead.
There is a pub
called the Hanging Man which is a reference to the 12th
card of the Major Arcana and can also refer to Odin hanging from the
World Ash Tree in order to learn the meaning of all the runes.
While there were no
snakes in The Prisoner of Azkaban, at least not that I recall, in the
very first chapter a very large snake makes an appearance as an old
man eavesdrops on Voldermort and Peter What's-his-name, the traitor
who lived for 12 years as the Weasley's pet rat Scampers.
The snake tells
Voldemort the old man is listening outside the door and Voldomort has
Peter bring the old man in and then murders him.
Then Harry Potter
wakes up with his scar hurting, he has just dreamed all of this.
Harry thinks of who
he can talk to about his scar. He rejects Hermionie and Ron after
imagining what their advice would be and decides to contact his
godfather, Sirius Black who is still on the run.
Since the third
chakra is all about the heart, we find Harry's home life improving
somewhat because he has discovered Sirius and the Dreasly family,
knowing that Harry has a relation to such a person thought to be a
murderer, treats Harry better.
Again, just like in
the preceding novels, Harry's home life imrpoves based on lies. Not
that it matters so much because the Dreasly family has no desire to
know the truth
For the first time
in the series we see Ron becoming jealous of Harry after Harry's name
comes flying out of the Goblet of Fire.
First task involves
dragons and the acquisition of a golden egg
Second task deals
with with water and mere-people
Third task involves
finding a way through a hedge maze to claim a kind of cup.
When Harry and
Cedric both clasp the cup, I am assuming the cup is a loving cup with
a handle on each end, they are transported to the Riddle estate
Cedric is murdered
right away. Cedric means "kind and loved"
So the Tri Wizard
trophy is a loving cup one handle grabbed by Harry the other
handle grabbed by Cedric
Cedric's murder
strikes me as a human sacrifice, that Harry led Cedric to be
sacrificed so that Harry could escape Voldemort. This point seems to
be proven when Harry can't accept the winnings from the Tri Wizard
winnings. It's blood money that Harry finally gives to the Weasly
twins so they can start their joke shop. So the sacrifice of Cedric,
of “Kind and Loved” is transformed or transmuted into a joke.
So, how is my thesis
going? Do the Harry Potter books align with the main chakra system?
So far they seem to but in this book, the heart is blown up, in a
matter of speaking. Kindness and love are sacrificed.
The serpent makes a
reappearance at the start of this novel as Voldemort's pet snake.
Just to recapitulate
from memory, there is a boa constrictor Harry releases from the zoo
in the first novel.
There is a basilisk
in the second novel that lives in the Chamber of Secrets.
I don't recall a
serpent in Azkaban.
And Voldemort's pet
snake is introduced at the start of this novel. Voldemort's pet snake is named Nagini and while looking for an image for this set of notes, I found that Nagini is Hindu for the female snake gods. A naga or nagini is also a person in possession of the Kundalini, or serpent life force.
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