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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

In the same way that Moby  Dick is about a whale, perhaps.
But he's far and away the least interesting character in the story.
So's Harry.

So DD can vanish, as can Lupin, McGonagall, Hagrid, Petunia, Snape?
Labelled "Not wanted on Voyage"? 
Tut, tut. Be realistic. Without the adults he's Voldy-fodder.
What Harry does will undoubtedly be important, but who's going to tell
him *how*, who's going to tell him *why*, who'll break down relating
the back-story? 
More importantly, who's going to tell *us*.
Without the adults it'd be as mindless as a Disney (spit) 'young adult' 
film, pandering to the limitless egos of idiotic adolescents who somehow
always know more than any grown-up, resulting in a resolution that is 
facile, moronic and has all the credibility of a nine-bob note. 

Adults dismiss such stuff as the rubbish it is.
Now if JKR goes along that route I shall be severely pissed - so also, I'd
venture to say, would many on the site; this is after all, a site for grown-
ups, not one for retarded teenagers with delusions of social adequacy
and a yearning for the stereotypical resolutions reflecting the non-existent
standards inherent in many a television-induced intellect narcosis, often 
called popular programming. 

Expectations are high and I'm confident that she won't crash and burn 
at the final bend. It's much too intricate, detailed and ambivalent for 
that sort of let-down to be likely.

Kneasy
I *never* complain when there's no love duet, for I suspect that such
as Handel were the Abba of their time.