Bothered by JKR likening Harry's trials to the caged disabled Czech kids

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> Dumbledad:
> > 
> > I agree, I wasn't questioning her logic, more her taste. No that's 
> the wrong word. Her grip on reality. No that's wrong too. There's 
> just something that makes me very uneasy about comparing 
> real-world suffering to a character in a kids' book as a way of 
> illustrating just how bad the real suffering must be.
> > 
> 
> Hmmm. I don't think that's what she was trying to do. It wouldn't 
> be like JKR to trivialize anyone's suffering. I think she was trying 
> to harness some of the indignation that people express on 
> Harry's behalf--look how many main list posts have there been 
> expressing outrage that the Dursleys and Snape treat Harry so 
> badly. JKR must get ten times that in her mailbag every day.
> 
>  Wouldn't it be nice to expend some of that energy on behalf of 
> some real children who need help?
> 
> Pippin
> going to find out what she can do

Brava PIppin, 

Less talk, more action is what this demands.

Ellen, 
following Pippin's excellent example