If you were JKR....

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 26064

I think on the whole no changes will be needed.  One of her themes is 
responsibility and resolve in the face of danger.

My son is 13. He lives apart from me with his mother about 250 miles 
away  and we don't have easy daily communication. On Tuesday I was in 
tears because I couldn't be with him just so we could hug and share 
our thoughts and fears. But I did have a few comforts, one of which 
is that he is an HP fanatic and is alive to the moral themes of the 
books. I think he will get through all this better than otherwise  
because JKR has helped give him some frameworks for working out what 
the world can be like. At least I hope so.

He also has a computer game I quite like called Settlers - a lot of 
it is about building a society peacefully.  I don't like the 
conditions for a win though which involve destroying a neighbouring 
civilisation... in my last letter I told him:

>>> 
After all my mutterings about computer games I really enjoyed playing 
the Settlers game with you
 well up to the time when we let the 
Romans loose to destroy their neighbours anyway! Ubi Solitudinem 
faciunt, pacem appellant  
 where they create a wilderness and call 
it peace
(A quote from a Roman historian called Tacticus, about the 
Roman conquest of south Germany). 
<<<

Somehow I think JKR doesn't think peace comes from creating a 
wilderness either... so I am hopeful for the series from now on too.

Edis