The intended murder of Pettigrew and moral corruption (Was; Vengeance on Sna
eggplant9998
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Mon Oct 25 20:40:27 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 116429
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.
Eggplant
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