Who knows? DD knows, that's who.

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 118069


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Kneasy:
> > I like it! Gotterdammerung! Ragnarok! The Fenris Wolf (Lupin), the 
> Great
> > Serpent (Slytherin), Hagrid as Thor, DD as Odin (Moody would be 
> better; 
> > never mind), blood everywhere, Hogwarts/Valhalla burns, the Giant 
> Squid
> > gently poaches to form a sea-food platter with Trevor and the 
> Merpeople,
> > maybe three survive and then Yggdrasil (the Whomping Willow -  
> should 
> > be an ash but who cares?) sprouts again. 
> > A new world. A satisfyingly cathartic climax. Cue credits.
> >  
> > > 
> > > Carolyn
> > > Who thinks Kneasy is a bad influence
> > 
> > Tsk, tsk. Why blame me?
> > As you know I'm totallly opposed to gratuitous violence, calumny and
> > fanciful theories. You must be thinking of three other fellas.
> 
> Geoff:
> Why is it when you go into this "taking everybody with you when you 
> go" mode that I am strangely reminded of Bumble in "Oliver Twist" who 
> castigated the Sowerberrys after Oliver had escaped because they had 
> fed him meat?
> 
> BTW, you forgot the White Witch, Sauron and the Einheriar of the 
> Herlathing inter alia....
> 

Meat? No, it wasn't the meat (rationing - remember?) but other early 
influences.
When nowt but a dewy-eyed innocent I was exposed to an alternative
world-view - from Tom Lehrer. I've never looked back since first
hearing his rousing rendition of "We'll All Go Together When We Go",
a cheerful ditty celebrating universal extinction. (His love songs are
good too - "I Hold Your Hand In Mine" being a particular favourite.)

Once infected by his admittedly iconoclastic doctrines, any imagined
catastrophic outcome for HP can be viewed with equanimity, or even
gleeful anticipation. And anyway it's better to end with a bang rather
than a whimper. It'd be so depressing having bands of ex-wizards 
wandering through a non-magical Hogsmeade, beating off Lupin
every full moon, subsisting on charred owl-on-a-stick, constantly
pestered by Social Services counsellors determined to 'normalise'
their attitudes and behaviour. Ugh. The horror! The horror!

Give me a joyful massacre for preference any day.

Kneasy