[HPforGrownups] My hope for OOP

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 60973


--- whimsyflower <profwildflower at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> 
> My hope, and I confess, my expectation for OOP is
> that it will be the "coming of 
> age" part of the series.  The spoilers have
> described the authorities at 
> Hogwarts as inadequate, and the MOM as not able to
> do what's needed 
> either. Many adolescents experience a time during
> which they feel "betrayed," 
> and they learn they can not, and do not have to,
> depend on authorities  to 
> solve current problems.  I believe our Trio will
> grow closer to each other in the 
> process of learning they are able to manage some
> things without the 
> "authorities."  This understanding is both a rite of
> passage and a coming of 
> age.
> 
> Whimsyflower


I don't think this applies here.  The trio having been
solving things and and being heroic without adults for
four years now.

I don't want to see three against the world (generally
speaking, I like that, but it doesn't seem to follow
with what we saw at the end of GOF).  I think, instead
of it just being the three, I would like to see
something different.

Instead, I would like to see the coming of age derive
from acting as adults - or nearly so.  Working with
adults like Dumbledore and Molly and Mundugus on at
least semi-equal footing - with the footing becoming
more equal as we move to books six and seven.

They already know how to shut out adults and count on
themselves; it's time for them to learn to share
information and learn from those that have come
before.


Rebecca

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