Redemption

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 60011


A fair proportion of the posters appear to be arguing about or hoping for the 
redemption of one or other of the current list of baddies.

Why?

Enough of this namby-pambyism! We need baddies!. Voldomort, ( so far ) isn't so 
much a baddy as an elemental force, the lurker in the shadows, a deus ex machina of 
evil.

But I think we need baddies we can identify as people. The old fashioned moustache 
twirling rackrent landlord who throws the orphans out into the snow on Christmas 
Eve.

"Father, father, how can you be so cruel?"

"Practice, my dear, practice."

It's so satisfying when they get their come-uppance!

And it's so unsatisfying when they become all sweetness and light and see the error 
of their ways. Like too much candy-floss. JKR is ( I hope ), writing an epic of good and 
evil, not a self improvement tract. Since she has said that the series gets much darker 
we can only wait with bated breath for the double-cross, the knife in the back and the 
defeats that come before victory.

Whew. Had to get that off my chest. Hope I didn't upset too many fans out there.

Kneasy
who hisses pantomine villans