when Harry is "half-dead", and is talking to Dumbeldore, why does JK Rowling have the setting be in Kings Cross? Is there any specific significance to that? Something tells me that she wouldn't just have that be the setting for the heck of it...
2007-09-29 12:45:09 · 4 answers · asked by blueberries741 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It resembles a station between our world and the after world, and that's why Harry than goes one way and Dumbledore another. That's how I understand it!
2007-09-29 13:56:37 · answer #1 · answered by aceix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes the setting is significant. It is implied that while the part of Voldemort's soul that was in Harry was definitely dead, Harry is somewhere in between.
Even though Dumbledore tells Harry he is not dead, he also says Harry has a choice: to go back, or to wait for a train and "go on".
King's Cross therefore seems to represent the choices open to Harry: embrace the death that has hovered over Harry since Voldemort's first attack, or return to the pains he know await him in life--but with a good chance to end Voldemot's threat if he returns.
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2007-09-29 21:14:32 · answer #2 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She chooses kings cross because it is the place where above all things, in all the books harry can leave the dursley's and re-enter his world of magic and return to his true home. it resembles the act of going back for what is right!
2007-09-29 19:51:03 · answer #3 · answered by fanpire 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
read it again the answer is right there
2007-09-29 19:49:01 · answer #4 · answered by Corina R 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋