The Final Confrontation

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 128275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AyanEva" <ayaneva at a...> wrote:
> Eric Oppen wrote:
> > > I want to see Lord V _suffer_ first.  
>  
> TK wrote:  
> > Or afterward. See the other thread about how maybe HP and LV 
> > won't actually die, but HP might sacrifice his *magic* to destroy 
> > LV's magic. Thus. Lord Thingy lives out his days as muggle, being 
> > muggly, doing mugglicious things. 
> 
> AyanEva: I think I'm probably alone in this, but the thought of 
> anyone, even Voldie, suffering squicks me. There's been so much
> suffering already and I'm not too hot on vengeance and torture. 
<snip> 

In general, and in life, I agree with you. Suffering in real life 
tears me apart. I have trouble watching the news. However, the HP 
books are not life, they are not justice, they are art. 

To quote: "There are gentle souls who would pronounce *Lolita* 
meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a 
reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and . . . *Lolita* has no 
moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it 
affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, this is a sense 
of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being 
where art (curiousity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm." 
                                        -- Nabokov

I won't patronize you by pointing out that Voldie doesn't really 
exist and will not live out a life without magic. But sometimes, to 
make art, bad things must happen. The description of Harry's 
treatment by the Dursleys in the first book made me crazy with 
horror. 

TK -- TigerPatronus