Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Hòn Đá Phù Thủy/Chương 15”

As their punishment, Harry and the others must enter the aptly named Forbidden Forest, an ominous place despite Hagrid's guidancepresence. Dark, dangerous, and foreboding, the forest is aptly named. Theancient woods are ancient and contain many secrets, as well as mysterious, deadly creatures dwelling within. And while a forest contains abundant life, death always lurks nearby, as seen by the slain Unicorn. Students are rarely allowed to venture in here, for good reason, and only when closely supervised. We can guess that the Forbidden Forest will continue to play at least some role later in the series, but it is suggested here that Voldemort may still be alive, if only just, and could be utilizing its resources to sustain his life until he is able to fully restore his body.

Rowling usesis using the forest, the Centaurs, and the Unicorn to convey powerful symbolic meaning and imagery, as well as fear. In literature and western mythology, forests can represent the unknown, a wild spirit, the realm of birth, death, and resurrection, nature's secrets, and even the spiritual world. Unicorns symbolize purity, feminine chastity, morality, and other similar attributes. Harry, pure and innocent, has just entered a dark, frightening place, and he lacks any knowledge about it or its dangers. This parallels his journey into the wizardWizarding world, another unknown domain filled with unseen perils. Along both paths, Harry often struggles to find his footing, occasionally stumbling as he moves forward. The hooded creature drinkinglapping the Unicorn's blood is likely tied to the Dark Lord, and this may foreshadow Harry's possibly confronting Voldemort later in the story, and throughout the series. While in the forest, Harry encounters death firsthand. And not just any death, but a creature that represents all that is good and pure has been slain by something entirely vile and evil. Ironically, this malevolent being can only survive by drinking its innocent victim's blood. It was, we believe, this same evil that murdered Harry's parents, and the slain Unicorn may portend that even more virtuous and pure-hearted victims will fall prey to it.

The Centaurs that Harry encounters in the Forbidden Forest are particularly interesting. These mythological beings, half-human, half-horse, often symbolize mankind's dual nature, with its lower, savage animalistic side frequently in conflict with higher reason and morality. This struggle between good and evil will be seen throughout the series, not only in the two warring factions headed by Voldemort and (apparently) Dumbledore, but also within individual characters who must choose to follow either a light or a dark path, sometimes struggling between the two. And though the Centaurs are able to see, dimly, into the future, their predictions are so vague and abstract as to be nearly nonsensical, at least to humans. They comment several times that the planet Mars is bright, but do not expand on their understanding of this phenomenon. Our assumption is that Mars, being the Roman god of war, hints at a future conflict, probably involving wizards; the centaursCentaurs' calm reaction to this suggests that they also do not believe that they share this fate.