The intended murder of Pettigrew and moral corruption (Was; Vengeance on Sna

eggplant9998 eggplant9998 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 25 20:40:27 UTC 2004


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imamommy at s... wrote:

>Harry may make a lot of mistakes, 
>but he can't become what Voldemort 
>is: he can't become a cold-blooded killer.  

Actually I hope to see something like that in the series, I think it 
would make things very interesting. At the end of the series I want 
some people to denounce Harry, I  want others to say he did what he 
had to do, I want moral ambiguity, I want controversy not a paragon 
of ethics. I was delighted in the last book when Harry used a 
Unforgivable Curse, not because I thought it was the right thing to 
do but precisely because I thought it was not. And at the end of the 
series if you can not find at least one self appointed guardian of 
the nation's morals who is outraged and says Rowling is corrupting 
our youth then she is not doing her job. 

Millions of people who were once cute little kids and were just as 
nice kind and decent as Harry have killed people in war, often in 
very horrible ways, sometimes lot and lots of people. I think it 
would be very powerful to examine that fact in literature. 

In short at least to a degree, I want to see Harry Potter turn into 
Dirty Harry.

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