[HPforGrownups] Re: All a dream? WAS End of Harry Potter series.

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 44774


Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 2:09:04 PM, bluesqueak wrote:

b> 'Magic' solves nothing. 'Magic' will not bring Harry's parents back 
b> to life. 'Magic' will not make Snape or the Dursley's more 
b> likable. 'Magic' is basically 'technology' - useful, but ultimately a 
b> tool, and not a solution.

You are clearly wiser than some computer scientests I could name,
who preach that all we need is sufficient technology to achieve
utopia, and even Voldemort's ultimate dream of immortality.

b> Harry's side will win because they have people who are willing to 
b> sacrifice themselves and their lives to defeat Voldemort. Ron may 
b> sacrifice his life in the same way he 'sacrificed' himself as knight 
b> in the PS/SS chess game...

Already we have many examples of this -- Along with the chess game is
Hermione solving the logic puzzle, Harry's loyality to Dumbledore in
the C. of S., Harry having the insight to plunge the fang into the
diary, the Patronus (which I think has more to with psychology than
sorcery), and so on... *Characters* drive these storiesm not the magic
per se.  In that way, Harry Potter is the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" of
fantasies.

Amy wrote:
b> (1) It's been done a zillion times and is trite.  This, of course, is
b> a matter of opinion, and it can be done beautifully, as in The Wizard 
b> of Oz <ducks can[n]on fire from Davehoz>.

For the sake of our friendship, Amy, I'll hold my peace. :)  I'll only
say that I do feel MGM could have thought twice before altering the
author's original intentions.

-- 
Dave ( Who is glad they didn't decide to make the "Mary Tyler Moore Show"
       all a dream of Laura Petrie's :) )