Fairy tale v real life Was: Re: Innocent Alby?

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 123064


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
> 
> Pippin:
> > I love the way Harry is making the transition from magical, 
> > fairytale thinking to a more realistic view of the world. I think
> > it's very realistic that  he has not made that transition 
> completely. 
> > Some of the people he knows, he still thinks of in a childish 
> > black-and-white way, while he has come to a more grownup 
> > view of others.
>  
> Geoff:
> I think Pippin has put her finger on it. We are seeing Harry's 
> journey from childhood to manhood through his eyes. As children, 
we 
> saw the world in clear bright colours with grown ups fitting into 
the 
> catergories of friendly and kind or nasty and to be avoided. This 
was 
> reinforced by the stories we read. The goOd were good and the bad 
> werE bad and wore black hats.
>  
> characters both good and bad.
> 
<big snip>

I think you are absolutely right.  The fact that JK stated in the 
interview that DD was the Epitome of goodness..only means that DD 
has the best of intentions...

However we all know how the best of intentions can go awry...hence 
our harsher judgement on DD's actions.

Goodness does not always create pleasure...and "badness" does not 
always create pain."

I think we are all, as readers, as readers perturbed that DD's 
actions did not involve the health and well being of Harry, but 
rather the world around him....(which indicates a self-preservation 
motive on DD's score)..

Doddiemoemoe
(Ahhhh JK...how dare you incorporate a self-preservation 
characteristic into one who would seem doesn't need it!--after all 
death is the next great adventure.  In OOP, Harry learns that it is 
simply not about him and saving his own life and those immediately 
close to him emotionally. We can only hope that Harry will learn to 
be more than one of a 'sacrifical lamb'...In OOP it is also the 
place we learn that DD does not epitomize the WW...instead we get C. 
Fudge and Dumbridge insisting to us that THEY are the WW..)