All a dream (was End of Harry Potter Series)

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 44775

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


So I write:
When this came up before, I made the comparison to the possible dream
ending interpretation in Frankenstein.  It was wisely pointed out [I'm
sorry, but I do not remember by who.] afterwards that Frankenstein (as
also with the movie Wizard of Oz) is written in a fashion that
provides the *real* possibility of the dream interpretation.  Both the
book and the movie have a box in box construction that allows for a
reality before and after.

HP does not provide this beginning basis.  If the end of the series is
a boy waking up from a dream, then we are completely thrown from a
loop we *definately* were not expecting.  That is when readers become
angry.  We can accept that reading of Frankenstein and the end of
Wizard of Oz because it does not change much.  We kind of blame
ourselves for not seeing the possibility beforehand.  It is kind of
like not figuring out the butler did it.  Since the "authors" framed
the story, we can take the blame for not seeing the ending.  People
were mad at Dallas, for example, because the writers put the plot
device mid-story and did not want the viewers to figure-out the
ending.  As viewers/readers we call foul.  It is changing the rules in
the middle of the game.


Oh, and an observation a bit off topic yet not, I find it amazing that
the same topic was brought up two weeks ago with little flurry, but
now the clouds have opened and the rain is pouring down.  Quite an
amusing phenomenom on this site really.

Melody
Who is wondering why the Grey Wolf did not rise to support his "pet"
theory along with Pip!Squeak.  Quite unusual.