DD and Harry in Book VI, what you do and don't want to see

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 123457


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> 

> <snip specifics>
> 
> Just in general here. DD apologizes to Harry for withholding the 
> prophecy information from him, thereby being the indirect cause of 
> Sirius' death. He is not (as far as I understand) apologizing for his 
> original decision to put him with the Dursleys. 
> Since DD is the story's main voice-of-wisdom and explicator, for me 
> this says that *JKR* doesn't intend to make the Dursleys something 
> that DD needs to apologize for. In fact, I'm pretty sure that DD's 
> explanation is all we're going to hear about this issue. We have 
> received an acount of the circumstances and reasons for placing Harry 
> there - and I really think that, as far as the author is concerned, 
> this subject is closed. It seems to me, therfore, redundant to keep 
> on and on questioning DD's motives, when the author clearly (IMO) 
> doesn't.
> 


That may very well be the case.  At which point I will regard JKR as
having failed very badly as a writer.  But, there will be a million
different opinions on that one.

Lupinlore