Comments on: Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Speech Sheds Light on One of the Tales From Beedle

By: Lila

Lila — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:46:57 +0000

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Robert — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:18:51 +0000

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By: Around the Common Room — The Hog's Head

Around the Common Room — The Hog's Head — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:38:58 +0000

[...] Progs makes a link between Rowling’s commencement speech and “The Warlock’s Hairy [...]

By: Penny

Penny — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:57:59 +0000

Leanne- That is awesome! Totally goes with it all. It really is such an amazing thought though. Thank you!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:50:32 +0000

Nice reflections Penny! I’ve been humming that Rose song since you brought it up on the podcast. For some reason, I loved that song as a child. I think I was a pretty intense child!
So, he gets quoted all the time and that can be a bit wearying, but I’ve got to quote CS Lewis along these same thoughts. This is from his book _The Four Loves_.
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
It seems Beedle and JK Rowling (and good ole Bette Midler!) share Lewis’ opinion.