JKR's dismay at favourite fansite Slytherins

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No: HPFGUIDX 100102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <teilani2002 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Kneasy, I'll say it yet again, you really make me laugh! :-)  You 
> make us women sound like the stereotypical romantic ninnies who 
> believe that showering a man with an inordinate amount of love and 
> understanding will cause them to change into a completely different 
> person.  

Kneasy:
Romantic ninnies? Not I, I know my Kipling:-
"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male"
The RL circumstances that inspired his poem "The  Betrothed" is quite
instructive though, and just to balance it, read his "Mary Gloster", it's
a heartbreaker.

Maybe I'm being cavalier with sweeping statements, but be fair, don't
you agree that the distaff side is much more susceptible to any
romantic possibilities in any story? Generally, us males skip that bit
to get to the more  interesting stuff. 

>Susan: 
> The only evil character I think will make any attempt at redemption 
> is Peter, and that's not just because he owes Harry his life, or 
> because of his involvement in his parents' deaths, or because of his 
> involvement in Sirius' incarceration (;-).  I think it's going to 
> revolve around his cowardice. (And as an aside, how _did_ cowardly 
> Peter get to be a Gryffindor?!) Harry will save him from LV's wrath, 
> and this time Peter will appreciate it and make some sacrifice of his 
> own to help/save Harry.  

Kneasy:
Possible. But only if the alternative for Peter is worse -  he's too
afraid of Voldy to up sticks and take his silver hand and tin of
Brasso over to  the other side without *very* strong motivation.
Just owing Harry won't do it IMO. But if Voldy is throwing a wobbler,
raining death and destruction on all and sundry and looking at
Peter in particular as a target for special treatment, then Peter
might just do it.