[HPforGrownups] OOP: The unknown power

Christopher Nehren apeiron at comcast.net
Thu Dec 2 01:00:23 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 119014

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 21:35:48 EST, ignatia_wildfire scribbled these
curious markings:
> I think it was obvious from the way Dumbledore spoke - I believe the 
> power Harry has that Valdermort will never have is LOVE...

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I really, really hope not.
If that were so, it would make the series fake, Disneylike,
cartoonish, trite, cliche (I'll type that accented e when someone tells
me how to access such characters on my FreeBSD console), and so forth.

Christopher

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pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson
Linux: "How rebellious ... in a conformist sort of way."
Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.




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