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

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115957


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
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> Kneasy
> I *never* complain when there's no love duet, for I suspect that 
> such as Handel were the Abba of their time.

Alas, I suspect the intent of my analogy has been largely missed (or 
just slipped by).  Expecting a love duet in Handel doesn't work, 
largely because there are no (or very few tenors).  But--everyone 
knows that going in, that Handel ain't Puccini, although I can almost 
bring myself to feel some pity for those who are shocked at the 
opening sound of the harpischord.

It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that somehow Harry is going to 
off Voldemort, right?  Harry himself may live or die, but the more 
extravagant claims of Dark!Harry and temptation and all that have 
already been shot down by her--she seemed pretty indignant about it, 
too.

Sure, the adults are *important*, but the more I think about it and 
how it's really all about Harry, they are primarily there to give him 
guidance.  I hope, just as fervently as you hope for other things, 
that Dumbledore is going to be wrong about the prophecy and Harry's 
going to have to figure things out by himself, to some extent.  
That's what the Bildungsroman model would lead us towards--the 
development of his character into independence and all that.

I think she's conned us into trying to draw all of these intricate 
parallels between MWPP's generation and Harry's, and then messes with 
them.  (To answer another thread, I don't think the Creevey brothers 
are meant as a direct Peter analogy, obnoxious though they may be.)  
But we shall have to wait and see, I think.

Fear of sap, dear Kneasy?  We all know your feelings about *ick* 
Love.  But do expect it to play some major role in the series, after 
all.

-Nora admits to preferring Puccini to Handel--mainly because there's 
no harpsichord