[HPforGrownups] Convenient Plot Devices

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43687


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> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., manic <manic1066 at y...> wrote:
> > Does anyone else realize how easy JKR has made it for people to do
> > anything and everything in her universe? Aside from killing
> > Voldemort, of course. There's a spell or device for everything.

Barb replies:

> I have to strongly disagree.  There are limits on the things you mention,
and ones you don't, as well.  The fact that the wizarding world has
organized itself, that it has a government and laws, says that they realize
that folks shouldn't just be allowed to run around wreaking havoc with
magic.  Dark wizards are considered dangerous because they don't recognize
these limits.

I must add this here, I think the whole point overall is that magic *can't*
solve everything.  For example, the one thing Harry wants more than anything
else is his parents.  All of the magic in the world can't bring them back.
Not a potion, not a curse, not a cloak, not a mirror, not a time turner,
nothing.  Sure, magic is a nice quick fix for a broken pair of glasses.

I think the key here is that there are endless opportunities to add more and
more twists and turns through magic.  BUT the more that is discovered by
Harry and the readers, the more you realize that magic can't fix everything.
Harry's deepest longings and most desperate desires can't be fulfilled with
magic.

Manic writes:

> Need to know someone's innermost thoughts? look into their
> pensive.

Well, let's remember not everyone has a pensive.  Only Dumbledore to our
knowledge.  And were those really Dumbledore's innermost thoughts?  No.  He
wouldn't put those away, he puts the thoughts that are really common
knowledge to most people involved.  All those at the trial knew what Harry
saw in the pensive.  At least that particular scene.  The pensive, in my
opinion, is more for the thoughts that you need to look back on, to find a
common theme, to study more carefully.

Richelle