[HPforGrownups] Exorcizing the Prank

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 38786


I see kind of a strange parallel between this ubiquitous debate and
one of the most ubiquitous debates on the Oz forum I moderate:

When the Wizard sent Dorothy &c. off to vanquish the Wicked Witch of
the West, there are basically two ways to view his motivations: One,
that he was only trying to "scare" Dorothy into not bothering him
again (more consistent with the Wizard's character in other canonical
Oz books); or two, that he was maliciously out to "murder" Dorothy
(the view Gregory Maguire upholds in his "heretical" book, _Wicked_).

If we replace the Wizard with Sirius, the Witch with Lupin in werewolf
form, and Dorothy with Snape, we've got the exact same controversy!
Yet another weird Oz-Potterverse parallel...

In both cases, I prefer assuming the purer motive and assume
they both were just trying "to scare"...

-- 
Dave