Changing the WW (was Snape's abuse )

[tbernhard2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 131767

Jen Reese wrote:
>  But in a very subtle way JKR is advocating the most crucial change
of all---inside each person is the capacity to choose good over evil,
right over easy.

dan:
Demonstrating how it might happen, rather - envisioning it.

Jen:
> This is the basis for true social change, much more than a forced
political or legal change within a cultural system. Granted, sometimes
the forced change has to come before individual change evolves, but
starting anywhere in the system can have a significant effect.

dan:
Contemporary liberals like John Ralston Saul and Richard Rorty say as
much. I think, however, Rowling's view is more radical, more anarchic
- via the DA, for example, a kind of vigilantism, really, but not
called that generally derogatory term, not played that way, but played
rather as, well, as partisans, say. Or are they called guerillas now,
and let the name carry the negative connotation? At any rate, the DA
is a vigilante, partisan guerilla group. And I support it.

Not only is Rowling playing this political anarchism card, I think,
but she is definitely playing the social anarchism card as well. This
tacit approval of relationships based also on some internal ethical
capacity, is at the heart of the books.