Mycroft Holmes, Machiavelli and Richelieu

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IMNSHO, the series of books we all love has got better and more compulsive with 
every volume, and in common with you all I'm hoping for better yet.

I joined this group just a few days ago in an attempt  to sharpen my critical faculties, 
work off some intellectual flab and get ready for OoP and all the speculation and 
theorising *that* will induce.

Realistically, I knew that I would have little or nothing new to add to the corpus of 
existing knowledge and the painstaking dissection of the canon so far. But still, the 
posts are mostly interesting and sometimes entertaining even though the meat has 
been picked from the bones long since. Not nearly as febrile as I  feared, either - few 
signs of fans too long deprived of the promised treat heading for emotional 
meltdown.

Most of my attention has been focussed on reading the posts, essays, etc. No time yet 
for the Archives. Then yesterday I followed a link back to some real meat - sliced, 
diced and digested by bluesqueak.

I bow before a maestria.

This post, ( I want you to DIE, Mr Potter 40044 ) is a supremely  devious critique of 
the climax of GoF and worthy of Mycroft Holmes.

If this exposition is correct, JKR is constructing a series full of gob-smackingly 
Machiavellian misdirection and subtlety worthy of  Richelieu. We know that JKR has 
said that she wasn't particularly aiming at the childrens book market - that was 
Bloomsburys' decision - and if bluesqueak is correct in her assumptions, then future 
books are likely to be very dark indeed. Probably enough so as to outrage certain 
critics and publications who assume that the books will and should be constructed to 
cater for  children of a nervous disposition and that if there isn't a Disney ( pause to 
spit ), ending then there ought to be.

Categorisation can be *so* limiting. 

After bluesqueak, I too now fear for Hagrid, possibly my favourite character. Thanks a 
bunch.

>From now until the 21st I intend to spend most of my time in the Archives.

I need meat! Meat! More! More!  References would be appreciated.

Kneasy