Dark is rising again - final post reread impression

[dumbledore11214]

> marion11111: 
> I'm not magpie, but I am bored at work so if it's OK, I'll jump on 
> this one too. :-)

Alla:

Cool :)

 
> I don't know that I'd especially like either one as a person.  I 
> don't buy DD's remorse because after he says he feels bad he turns 
> around and does something dishonest again. 

Alla:

Not trying to argue about DD, but just wondering when did he do 
wrong again after he asked for Harry's forgiveness at Kings Cross?

But really if you do not like **either** of them as a person, that 
POV I completely, completely get.

It is just to me they are so very similar in what they fight for and 
what they do in order to achieve their goals, you know?


They are all fighting a war in order to get rid of huge evil, right?

And they both seem willing to hurt some individual people as long as 
it helps them to achieve their goals. IMO anyways.

To me Dumbledore is more likeable, because he at least feels bad 
about hurting Harry, you know?

MArion:
> I would be terrified of Merriman but then I don't completely 
> consider him human.  Will is initially frightened of him but when 
he 
> himself becomes an Old One he isn't anymore.  We don't see many of 
> his close personal relationships with normal people - just Hawkins 
> and the Drew children.  To have some stranger snap at you or treat 
> you impersonally isn't so awful  It's when it's someone you care 
> about that it hurts.  What he did to Hawkins is horrible, he knows 
> it is but as far as we know he has never betrayed someone like 
that 
> before and may never have to again. And the Light paid a price for 
> Merriman's mistreatment of Hawkins.  Of course, Hawkins paid a 
> bigger price.
> 
> On a lesser scale, I see him also making use of the Drew children. 
> They weren't endangered or betrayed the way Hawkins was , but I 
> don't know if that's because Merriman learned from his mistake, 
> learned not to get so close to people, protected them because they 
> were young or if the opportunity just didn't come up. 

Alla:

Totally agree, totally.

 
> In my boredom, I just read another article about the upcoming 
movie 
> and the director said that among the changes we have a "greater 
> story arc" about Hawkins losing his soul.  Did I totally misread 
the 
> book?  I didn't think Hawkins lost his soul.  He was punished, but 
I 
> didn't think souls entered into it.  Of course, we will also have 
a 
> fight in a church involving snakes.
>


Alla:

OH dear, oh dear. Oh DEAR. It is getting worse now. Where where in 
the books is he losing his soul, Walker I mean?

Do I REALLY want to subject myself to this movie? Do I?