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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" <R.Vink2 at c...> wrote:
> 
> Well, what I'm mostly interested in are the things that will 
> continue to provide food for thought and debate once I've read Book 
> 7: Character, ethics, morals & principles, symbolism, narrative 
> techniques, what kind of statement the author is making with her 
> books, etc. 
> 
> Speculating about the plot is of minor interest to me. The various 
> theories about future developments I've stumbled across while 
> looking for analyses of what we've got so far, range from (mildly) 
> interesting, plausible or at least amusing to boring, preposterous 
> or annoying. The more complicated, elaborate and vulnerable to 
> Occams Razor they are, the more likely it is they'll turn out to be 
> wrong. The plot is a vessel; it's not what the Harry Potter books 
> are about and after Book 7, it will be about as thrilling as 
> yesterday's newspaper. But unless JKR is going to dissapoint her 
> grownup readers quite badly, the other aspects will still be worth 
> tackling.
> 

Dear, oh dear. 
Sounds as if there's someone else with fairly limited expectations.

All depends on what you expect of plot, I  suppose.
If it's "Harry crunches Voldy, runs off with Ginny to farm Billywigs"
then it would be pretty sterile, facile and any number of other -iles.
Me, I'm hoping for more.
I want it to go along a different path that will cause readers to think,
discuss, argue long after the books have been published. But it can
only reach that point if JKR guides the plot arc away from the trite 
and mundane. I've posted before that I'd be happy for Jo to come up
with something entirely different - even to not come to a clear
conclusion, to leave it all in the mind of the reader, for him/her to
decide or determine what it was all about. Not really likely, I'll admit,
but like you I think the series deserves more than a conventional
fantasy conclusion.

And when you consider it, that's the case with morals, ethics and such.
To mean anything they must be personal - and they change with time
and place. An imposed morality is no morality at all - morality is 
developed according to personality and experiences - it comes from
within, it's part of one's belief system, philosophy, whatever.
Behaviour can be enforced, morality is much, much more. And Jo has
said that she hopes she's writing a story from which morals can be
drawn - again a matter of readers personal interpretations, rather than
a morality tale - here's the author's beliefs, take it or leave it.

Kneasy