[HPforGrownups] Re: Somethings not right

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 80827

> <scootingalong at b...> wrote:
> >(snip) It sent one heck of a message to me, and for
> little kids 
> reading 
> > this book as well. She basically is saying it's ok
> if someone 
> hurts 
> > you, you don't have to tell an adult, you don't
> have to tell 
> anyone, 
> > you can keep it a secret! 

Harry Potter is a work of fiction.  It it a story.  It
is literature.  It is not an after-school special.  It
is not meant to be an operating manual for kids.  HHR
do tons of things kids should never do and that, if
kids were to follow their example, could get them
killed.

If JKR made them (or one of them) always do what a
child should do, or made sure someone always did it,
it would come off false, imo.  The very point of
Umbridge is how much power she has, how can't be
stopped. This is illustrated by the very fact that
every time they come up with something she just
changes the rules to make it unallowable. If they tell
someone and she is made to stop, then her function as
a character is weakened.

And I don't think kids are given enough credit.  They
see that Harry doesn't tell, and things keep getting
worse for him.  Any kids that are too young to get
that probably aren't reading a book this long.
Besides, I don't think "emualate Harry" has ever been
the point of HP.  Relate to Harry, has.



Rebecca

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