What's in the locked room?

severelysigune severelysigune at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 19 12:23:18 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 89115

Iggy wrote:
>>Truth (with the big "T"), is not an emotion, it is a statement of 
the very nature of reality.  It doesn't influence your life, it 
dictates existence itself.
 
I feel that JKR would be making a BIG mistake if she had it be Truth,
since there would be too many people who would find fault with it, 
even among her hard-core fans, since she would have to define it.>>  


Sigune thinks:
I entirely agree with Iggy.
PLEASE let it not be Truth. That would be scary, spooky and far too 
absolute. The existence of Truth would mean that there is a clear-cut 
Right (anything or anyone adhering to the Truth) and a clear-cut 
Wrong (those who do not adhere to the Truth). That is extremely 
dangerous - and very unsatisfactory in a story that thematises 
tolerance. Let there be imagination, and speculation, and quests, and 
uncertainty, and people trying to make the best of it.

Yours severely,

Sigune
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple" (Oscar Wilde)







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