Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[sistermagpie]

Alla:

Magpie, shout out to you especially. Read on and you will understand
why. I mean first and foremost because you like Dark and Rising
obviously :)

For example, does anybody who read the series was reminded of
Dumbledore's treatment of Snape in Merriman treatment of Walker.

Magpie:
Actually my answer to this question and the Obliviate question are 
the same--the Light isn't forgiving at all, but that's the point. 
They're not human, they're inhuman and they're kind of fanatics (and 
they're called out as such in the book). What's done to the Walker is 
supposed to be inhuman (I think it's more some sort of Law than 
specifically Merriman).

In TDiR it's an important part of the story that ultimately Dark and 
Light are almost the same, but at the center of one is a pit of 
darkness and at the center of the other is a cold, white flame--
Cooper said she thought it might be in her mind a bit connected to 
the white explosion of the atom bomb. They don't treat people the way 
people should be treated--even when they want to. They have an agenda 
and even if it's ultimately the right one/a good one, that doesn't 
mean they're on peoples' side the way we'd think of the term. 

That's what I loved about it the first time I read it as a kid. That 
whole Walker storyline is totally scary. Although at the same time, 
you know they're only like that when dealing with their own stuff. 
Most of the time dealing with them as people they're like people. I 
mean, they don't use magic on people regularly. But the people they 
do deal with magically are often wary of that side of them.

-m