Race & HP

[jferer]

Original Yahoo! HPFG Header:
No: HPFGUIDX C6999
From: jferer
Subject: Re: Race & HP
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6983] Race & HP
Date: 8/16/00 12:29 pm  (ET)

Hermione's commitment to the house-elves does add dimension to Hermione,
and is also a milepost on her road to growing up. Hermione is looking
outside herself, maybe for the first time. It's also important to her
development that she discovers that the situation is more complex than
she first believed. It's all part of JKR's theme of growing. God send my
two daughters do the same. I'd be proud to have them end up like Hermione.

In William Manchester's life of Churchill, he wrote of the British
underclass in the context of the turn of the twentieth century. I was
shocked to read that most of these people were significantly shorter and
looked stunted because of poor nutrition and disease. I thought of that
when I was reading about the house-elves.