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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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