Kids and grownups (Was: Just where is JKR getting her info from?)

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115817


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

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> The only thing that bothers me is the phrase "after they leave
> school." Isn't she going to tell us what happens to the grown ups?
> Surely it won't just be kids who survive!

Let me hijack this thread into something I've been thinking about.  
Given her recent comments (about how Harry is really the center of 
all of it), and thinking more in general about past and present, I've 
come to the once-reluctant conclusion:

JKR is really more interested in the kids than the adults.

It's the kids' story, much more than the adults.  The Trio tops her 
list of favorite characters.  All attempts at drawing neat and clean 
parallels between the generations have been cheerfully screwed with 
(I've been around long enough to remember how many 'Is Neville the 
Peter of his generation?' posts there were), and while what has 
happened is important, I don't think it's going to be determinative 
of what's going to happen.

I'm fairly convinced that for all his wisdom and what he knows, DD is 
wrong in his interpretation of the Prophecy, and Harry himself is 
going to come up with something different, distinctly elegant, and 
remarkably obvious--in hindsight.  History isn't repeating itself, 
but we're going to get something new, because it's Harry's story, and 
everyone else just plays a role in it.

For me-as-reader, the world expanded greatly with the real 
introduction of the adult generation in book 3, and I still have a 
lot of things I want to know about them, but I'm no longer convinced 
that their backstory is the secret knowledge just out of reach.  My 
impression from reading some of the interviews is that she's often 
almost nudging us to ask more about the kids, when we get hung up on 
the adults.  So I have, in a sense, shifted some of my expectations, 
because there's no point in wishing a series to be what it's probably 
not going to be...

Your mileage my vary, I think.

-Nora drifts off into dreamland with the sounds of...the radiator