[HPforGrownups] Re: End of Harry Potter Series

[Carol Bainbridge]

No: HPFGUIDX 44772

Barb says:
>Lack of imagination?  Why would the magical world not being "real"
>mean JKR has a lack of imagination?  As you pointed out, we have ample
>evidence to the contrary.

The best way I can think of to explain why this is probably not JKR's 
intention and why it would indicate a lack of imagination in JKR is that we 
can all imagine such an ending ourselves.  JKR is extremely clever and 
creative in the ways she leads us all down the wrong path (unless I am the 
only reader in the entire world who has been surprised at all the twists 
and turns in the plots and characters).  Even those of us who read numerous 
mysteries and can predict what the author is going to do next are easily 
tricked by JKR.  The fact that there is ample evidence to suggest that the 
entire story is nothing more than a dream is, IMO, far more likely to be 
one of JKR's little red herrings that she drops here and there to throw us 
off the track.  (Assuming she had any intention of creating such an 
illusion.)  It never fails to amaze me that JKR could continue to trick me 
as a reader even when I was ready for her tricks.  I think that's why so 
many of us would be so disappointed if she resorted to a dream to explain 
Hogwarts and why some of us consider it a trite trick.  It's much too 
simple and predictable for the JKR that I have come to know and admire.

Carol Bainbridge
(kaityf at jorsm.com)

http://www.lcag.org