JKR's Messages (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

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> SSSusan:
Yes, Harry's convinced he got *Snape's* punishment.  But is that the 
same thing as JKR's punishment?  That's what I'm trying to gather: 
whether the "consequences" -- punishments, comeuppances, whatever 
one calls them -- are being shown as JUST, as RIGHT by the author; 
that is, that she *agrees* with them.  *Is* that what we get with 
Harry being humiliated by Snape -- a clear message to the readership 
that Harry's getting what he truly deserves?  Or is it just "one 
more instance" of Snape being unfair in Harry's eyes?


Alla:

Hi, Susan! I think we are talking about some kind of "carmic payback" 
again.

I think (and it is only my opinion) that JKR IS quite good at those, 
but I don't think this situation was "carmic payback", because Harry 
did not even think that he somehow DESERVED what he got. He did not 
have a single thought (unless I don't remember this part in canon, of 
course) that he was humiliated BECAUSE of past event. Two events were 
not connected in his mind in any way shape or form, therefore I think 
that we were just being shown Snape being Snape.

Again, I tend to think that JKR DOES administer carmic punishments 
for some "gray" area events, but I am not sure that theft from 
Snape's office was one of them.

Just my opinion,

Alla