Wizard Chess WAS (McG / DD / Re: Why should Harry .....)

[M.Clifford]

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> > Valky:
 Yeah he's acting quite a bit bratty, especially in disregarding the 
advice he is given by elders and friends that he *knows* care about 
him, but at the end of his fourth year at Hogwarts he faced a mans 
battle, he struggled for his very life against the most sinister 
force in existence, he wants it over and QUICKLY! I understand his 
frustration,> 
> -- Patrick:
> Sometimes I think the fact that Harry's still a kid gets lost. 
> I just felt it needed to be said. Yes, he did cross into what we
> perceive as bratty behavior, but if I were in his position I doubt 
I'd listen to people who 'cared about me' as they did over that 
summer.
> 

Valky replys:
I am glad this thread has finally turned in Harrys favour. You're so 
right Patrick, and Matt and Geoff. Harry is actually a really decent 
kid when all is said and done. I don't think his OOtP blowups are 
any indication of the opposite, at all. Despite the determination of 
others to prove it to me. :D

  
> Valky again:
> > The game seems to end in stalemate though, doesn't it? Or does 
it? What did Sirius sacrifice really represent?
> > If the dealings with Umbridge ended up fulfilling a positive
> > purpose, could the same possibly be said about Sirius and the 
Veil?
> 
> Patrick:
> but I think Sirius' departure is a forced maturing for Harry. 
Another realization that this isn't a game, this isn't Wizard's 
chess. I know that isn't what you meant, I'm just extending the 
metaphor.
>

Valky:
I agree with that, I think you know I was using the Wizard Chess 
metaphor in terms of plot construction, and cracking the code of 
PS/SS to see the foreshadowings of the next books, but on another 
level to that I totally agree that there is no Wizard Chess or game 
of any nature, to be found. 
  
OTOH I discovered that I was wrong about Wizard Chess being the 
fifth step under the trapdoor, which thoroughly confused me. Its the 
fourth AFAIK so now I am wondering why the Chess metaphor fits the 
plot so remarkably? And I was kind of hoping I could apply the Logic 
Puzzle to a foreshadowing of the HBP as a follow up, but that's not 
working now. I guess I'll have to create a new theory about the 
under the trapdoor foreshadowings called JMO (JKR Mixed the 
Order). ;D Where there's a will.....

 

> Or, reading over it, perhaps I'm just prattling.
> 
> -- Patrick

No not at all Patrick, It needs to be said and I am glad you said 
it. Personally, I find it depressing that the focus of so many 
readers of OOtP became a harsh thorough and deliberate judgement of 
the heroes, their behaviour and their attitudes and the list of 
their wrongs on Wizardkind. It was the atmosphere of the story, IMO 
and doesn't need to be applied to drastically to undo Harry as a 
good character.