Villainy

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No: HPFGUIDX 109473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:
> > Kneasy wrote:
> > Dunno about you but I'm disappointed in Voldy.
> > Seems to be more caricature than character.
> > More cardboard cut-out than cut-throat.
> > Which is a bit surprising
> >
> > <snip the rest of the entertaining rant>
> 
> 
> Neri shakes head in bemusement:
> 
> <snip>

> Could it be that you are trying to make HP into something it isn't? 
> Could HP be a book about (warning: a really wild speculation ahead) 
> Harry Potter? Not about Voldy, and maybe not even about Snape or 
DD's 
> plan? Could Voldy be there mainly as a challenge for Harry? Someone 
> for Harry to fight while he's not busy wrestling with bothersome 
> teenager friends, bothersome teenager rivals, system injustice, 
> grownups' prejudice, pressure from high expectations, an abusive 
> family, lousy teachers, crucial exams, hopes of future career, 
> winning the Quidditch cup, first dates, and several other petty 
> matters that sometimes occupy the mind and time of growing up kids? 
> 
> So if certain parts of the set are a bit flimsy at the seams, could 
> it perhaps be an indication of the author's priorities?
> 
> Neri

All of the above agreed neri, but kneasy has a point that Voldemort 
is not yet 'evil enough'. Predictions say he'll be WORSE this time 
than before, yet presently there's little evidence of that. The books 
yes at the simplest level are about a brave boy and his fight against 
evil. Evil has to be beaten in each book (sorry kneazy) and JKR does 
quite a good job of making it seem that Harry only just manages it by 
luck or being assisted. Harry and LV are Holmes and Moriarty (not 
that I've read Conan Doyle, so may be on thin ice). They battle and 
neither wins, though yet another dastardly plot is foiled by the 
hero. Don't Holmes and Moriarty disappear in the final book during a 
battle to the death? 

(Yes - see http://www.devonlife.co.uk/sections/mag/article.cfm?
id=51&yid=1)