[HPforGrownups] Two scenes for most everyone (was Re: Retribution for Snape the Teacher)

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 144111


--- lupinlore <bob.oliver at cox.net> wrote:
> I think 
> if JKR goes as Pippin wants and makes this a meeting
> between two 
> parties only, she will risk obscuring that radical
> difference in 
> moral standing, and come very close, as she has once
> before in OOTP, 
> to putting forth a defense and excuse for child
> abuse.

Yes, yes, they must meet under the supervision of a
trained social worker, otherwise it will be a bad
fiction. :-)

Just yesterday I've came across a story that seems
very relevant to this discussion. Vladimir Nabokov,
whom I consider to be the greatest writer of the 20th
century (or possibly the greatest writer ever)
received an attractive proposal from a respectable
newspaper: write a 2000 words column on a topic "Does
a writer have social responsibility", for a fee of 200
dollars.
Allow me to reproduce his entire answer:

"No.

P.S. You owe me 10 cent".

I don't expect you to agree with this point of view.
Here is another one, that you might like better.
That's from Miss Prism:
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That
is what fiction means." 

We'll have to wait a couple of years to find out to
which school of thought JRK belongs.

Irene




		
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