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lake4fam at earthlink.net lake4fam at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 3 08:53:26 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 27064

   I have several responses to make, all over the map, and in no 
particular order.  
   1st:  has anyone else wondered if JKR is not secretly lurking (Is 
this a tautology?) to harvest ideas either to create wrinkles or to 
iron them out?  I think I would do so...
   2nd:  to the person(s) who took offense at a posting incorporating 
a reference the intolerance of Christians/Christianity, may I remind 
the one(s) that that comment was not intended to be taken personally, 
and that, in the final analysis, these are "only" mental exercises 
over a popular work of fiction?  (As if!)
   3rd:  People have been postulating that all sorts of meaningful 
social commentary or allegorical equivalencies to perplexing moral 
questions exist in Our Beloved Potterverse.  Tolkien, when asked what 
the One Ring signified (as in the evil of nuclear war, or whatever,) 
said something to the effect that he had just written a story.  It 
had no "author's message" (quotation marks mine.)  Might JKR not have 
done likewise?
   4th:  Please don't interpret the above to mean that I disagree 
with the practice, or that I don't enjoy reading the very clever and 
well-thought-out expositions of same.
   5th:  Mega-Evil Villains are so full of their own importance, so 
convinced of their inevitable triumph, so contemptuous of their 
opposition, and so preoccupied with their grandiose schemes that they 
refuse to "sweat the small stuff."   Why bother with those silly 
little details?  (i.e., mother's love, checking the foe glass, etc.)
   That's all (for now.)  You might even say, "That's ENOUGH!" and 
you would be correct.  

dittany/custodienne who feels privileged being allowed to share your 
thoughts, and impatiently awaits the arrival of her Hogwarts jacket

p.s.  I sorted myself into Ravenclaw





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