Acceptable Abuses?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 95729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dolies <doliesl at y...> wrote:
>  
> If you must apply and taken everything that happens in
> the book as social issues, like some of posters here
> get so angry and demand to call child-abuse service on
> Snape and Dursley...it just don't make sense. This is
> just a fairytale-ish story where most of the
> villainous characters started out as caricatures.
> There are exaggeration. And some poster post quotes
> from JKR before: she did not think of HP as some
> "issues" book. And I agree.
> 
> D.

It may have started as fairy-tale story and maybe I would prefer the 
return to fairytale myself, but to me OoP was  as far from fairy-tale 
as you can get. You may not like thinking about social issues when 
reading HP, I do and frankly see nothing wrong in doing so. 
After all, JKR must have had at least some real world issues in mind 
when she wrote the books. Caricatures or not, quite a few posters 
seemed to know some "Snapes" during their lifetime. JKR must have 
done something right.

Alla