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

[mcdee1980]

No: HPFGUIDX 120758



> 
> Pippin:
> >  I think what JKR is 
> > saying is that the battle against the Riddles and their followers 
> > can never be won completely, because the only way to keep 
> > them from exploiting the rights and freedoms the rest of us enjoy 
> > is to deny them to everybody, and if we do that, they've won. 
> 
> SSSusan:
> 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.                                                                 
    Lady McBeth 
now:                                                                  
    It seems to me that the "escape from DJU" was in all cases 
necessary.  Hermione may have gone a little over the top in her need 
to save her friends, but its a clear case of removing the authority 
when they are not serving the needs of those in their charge.  "When, 
in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to 
dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, 
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal 
station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, 
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should 
declare the causes which impel them to the separation."(TJ)  Now in 
this case the appeal to a higher power and the ability to declare 
their causes is restricted because the MOM is behind DJU.  Hermione 
merely revolts against an authority that is tyrannical!  Revolutions 
tend to be bloody, so considering that, Umbridge got off easy . . . 
her head is still attached to her body!