The intended murder of Pettigrew (sorry, OT)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 116444


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cat_kind" <cat_kind at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Carol:
> > Carol, who still can't figure out *what* Lupin was thinking
> 
> catkind:  How about: Lupin in this scene slipped through the lines 
of
> print to join Sirius in an entirely different and more primitive 
genre
> of fiction.  
> 
> Think LotR.  Think Alexandre Dumas. This rat has betrayed our 
friend,
> causing his death. He has to die! In either of those settings it 
would
> seem perfectly normal.  
> 
> Harry then heroically drags his father's friends back up into
> Boarding-School-Story land.
> 

Renee:
No, don't think LotR, please.
<quote> 
Frodo: "What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature 
[Gollum], when he had a chance."
Gandalf: "Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: 
not a strike without need. (...) Many that live deserve death. And 
some that die deserve life. Can you give it to him?"</unquote>

It seems to me LotR and Harry Potter very much belong in the same 
camp.

Renee