Quesiton for Snapeophiles and -phobes RE Dumbledore, Snape, and Harry

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 114835


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> Alla:
> 
> 
> I don't know, Pippin. Since I grew up in the country, who lost 
 twenty millions of the population during World War II(practically 
every family lost someone, jewish family like mine usually lost 
 many), such evil was very vell known, visible and talked about. 
No,  I don't think I agree that such humongous evil is usually 
beyond  imagination.<

It's not beyond imagination if it's happening in your country. But in 
my country during WWII, my Jewish family, which included a very 
prominent man who could have commanded attention, was 
afraid to talk about the relatives who had gone missing in 
Germany, because they didn't want to encourage the 
anti-Semitic elements in my country who were already trying to 
paint the conflict as a Jewish war. So they were silent, and that 
made it easier for the Fudges in my country to pretend that these 
things couldn't really be happening.

IMO, JKR is addressing herself to that audience, the one that's 
afraid to speak out, and the one who can cocoon itself away from 
evil because it isn't happening to them, while getting mightily 
upset over the boss or the teacher in their daily life whose worst 
sin is that he's a jerk. 

We've been promised that Voldemort will be greater and more 
terrible than before,  and I think he will be. But that means JKR 
has to leave herself somewhere to go in the next two books, and 
she also has to work within the constraints of the form she has 
chosen--the graphic representation of rapes and murders is not 
going to suit the tone of the books (sorry, Kneasy),so we're 
spared that, while we get   very graphic and painful accounts of 
schoolyard misery. 

Pippin