Cheering on Harry

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 100998

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Del replies :
> I'm not saying that what Harry went through isn't horrible. But who
> gave you the right to judge that nobody else has suffered just as 
much
> for other reasons ? We don't know ANYTHING about what's going on in
> the other kids' lives. It took Harry 4 years to discover by accident
> the tragedy of Neville's life. So who can guess what might be going 
on
> in some other kid's life ? Just because a torture is silent and
> private doesn't mean it's less painful and destructive.
>

Alla:
Hi, Del! 


I think this is the biggest difference of how you and me read those 
books. Hey, more interesting to read diferent points of view.


You asked Darrin who give the right to judge "who suffered the most". 
Well, to me - Rowling gave me that right.


I absolutely CANNOT care about hypothetical sufferings of 
hypothetical characters. Why should I imagine that some unknown 
student in Hogwarts suffered more than Harry, if Rowling did not tell 
us about it and probably never will.


I care about the characters, who are in the book, not those nameless 
and faceless representatives of other houses.

You care more about the character, whom your imagination gave you. 
Well, more power to you. I have absolutely no interest to imagine 
another charcters, when Rowling already gave me so many to care about.

To me, Harry's sufferings are the worst. Yes, Neville also suffers, 
but in the books I cannot see anybody who comes even close.

As I said many times - that is the main problem with Slytherin House. 
Sure, I hope that there are some good kids there and I also hope that 
Rowling will eventually show us one, but why should I care about 
them, if I DON'T SEE them in the book. I care about fleshed out 
characters and the representatives of Slytherin House, which we know 
(as I said earlier I am not sure about Snape) do come close to 
being "evil personified" to me.






Alla