DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115933


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

<snip>

> Are you perhaps claiming that no more re-assessments will be 
> necessary, or will you just surreptitiously move the goal-posts at 
> any new revelation, claiming that "Well, it is canon after all"? 
> Naughty, naughty.

Faith, as is also pointed out, is the incarnation of belief in 
authorial authority--hence Faith has no problem accepting any 
revelations, because they *are* canonical when made.  She wears 5-
inch spike heels and yet survives Hurricane Jo far better than anyone 
else in the Bay--has anyone been recovered from the wreckage of the 
Fourth Man Hovercraft yet?

She's a good person to keep in one's sights at all times--
particularly given the cheerful glee with which JKR is going through 
and trashing various theories and speculations, these days.

I myself am certainly *not* claiming that re-assessments are not 
going to be necessary.  I suspect we differ on what kinds of re-
assessment we suspect are going to have to happen. 

Want to answer the JKR-supported claim that the books are really all 
about Harry, and thus the kids and what they do are more important 
than the adults?  With that in mind, expecting the adults to be key 
to everything is like going to a Handel opera and then complaining 
when there's no big love duet between the tenor and the soprano.

Methinks the GARBAGESCOW will be busy-as-usual, come next book.

-Nora boggles at the number of published scholarly essays out there 
on a work that isn't even completed yet