Taking it seriously

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No: HPFGUIDX 101939

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" <

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> 
> I know, it's very true that very bad things happen in real life.  
> But I don't see that as related to what happens in a fictional 
> story. 

Alla: 

To me a good story reflects at least SOME of what happens in real 
life truthfully. No, it does not have to reflect EVERY aspect of RL, 
but even a fantasy has to ring some truth to my ears. I don't know, 
emotional truth, I guess.


 Wanda:
But what would we think if at 
> the end of Book 7, a door flies open and Lily and James come 
rushing 
> in to embrace Harry, and we find that they weren't really dead at 
> all, it was all a mistake, and now they've found their boy and 
> they'll all live happily together.  It would be an appalling end to 
> the series, and nobody would be mollified by being told that things 
> like that DO happen in real life, after all.  Art has its own 
rules, 
> and its own integrity.  Real life doesn't have to conform to rules 
> of logic or sense because, well, it's REAL.
> 


Alla:

You don't have to worry about that aspect, because JKR indicated many 
times that Harry's parents are really and truly dead. Although on her 
website somehow she only answered that Lily is dead? Does it mean 
that she is backtracking? :o) For the record, I don't think so. :o)


Sirius, on the other hand.... :o)



Alla
> Wanda