Bad guys and black hats (was Re: Unreliable narrator)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 117513


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/0700-cbc-solomon
> .htm
> 
> With Voldemort, I didn't want to create this cardboard cutout of a 
> baddie, where you put a black hat on him and you say 'Right, 
> now you shoot at that guy because he's bad.' 




Alla:


Pippin, thank you for the quote. I don't know whether I would go 
that far as Renee suggests that authors should refrain from 
explaining  their texts, because for me authoritarial intention is a 
VERY big factor, when I try to interpret the text.

BUT I definitely agree with Renee in her contention that most of JKR 
bad guys, ESPECIALLY Voldemort, are pretty conventionally black hats 
(now good guys with evil side is a totally different story :o))