Why to Like and Not Like OoP (replies to many, question to Anne)

[thebasketfairy]

No: HPFGUIDX 71139

> the "even" that signals here... Little cracks in the space between 
> worlds, in both of the cases I have mentioned, that is, between 
> muggle and witch wizard and between RW and Rowling, are jarring. I 
> wrote that, if harry had sobbed uncontrollably (and been seen to do 
> so) at GoF, it would have dropped the bottom out of the careful 
> fantasy, and we would be staring straight into our own troubled and 
in 
> a closet.

Anything is possibly, however I hope it is not probable.  I have 
analyzed extensively why I like Harry Potter and it is for the 
escapism effect.  I missed all the hyped and somewhat blindly fell 
into Harry Potter.  My little one wanted the video, PS/SS; simply 
because she recognized the cover as a character, she had seen on 
television.  After watching the beginning of the movie and seeing how 
the Dursleys were abusing/neglecting Harry I became eager to see what 
happens to him and when he was able to go to Hogwarts I was so very 
happy.   

I can agree to a certain extent that Harry may be actually living in 
a closet and fantasizing about the wizarding world as a way of 
surviving his torment.  

Perhaps a social worker paid a visit and forced his caregivers (or 
not givers) to put him in a larger room.  Here in America, there are 
unscrupulous people that volunteer to be foster parents to receive 
money and then do nothing for the children.  There have been reports 
that 1 in 4 foster children are abused or neglected.  Ron, Hermione, 
and other students of Hogwarts could be foster children that have 
come and gone and/or stayed.  Cedric could easily be someone that the 
foster parents murdered or died from neglect, as Harry had to witness 
it unfold.  The patriarch of the foster family could be Mr. Dursley 
during normal times and Voldemort when he goes into a rage. 

The possibilities are endless, however, I must protest.  It is a 
children's book.  How devastating it would be for a child to read
the 
entire series for it to conclude that either the child was murdered 
at the hands of his foster parents or the child survived only because 
he was in a hallucinating state until he became an adult.  Then what 
is to happen? He immediately changes into a healthy "normal"
adult. 

In addition, it would probably mean the death of the possibly of the 
series being reread generation after generation.  What parent knowing 
that the ending is so utterly tragic and depressing would promote the 
series?  It would be like leading the lamb to slaughter.


Kathleen G.

Refusing to ruin my escapism and having an ache in the pit of my 
stomach thinking about such a theory.