The late Harry Potter

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 130370

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" 
<sherriola at e...> wrote:

As a child, I hated Grimm's fairytales, Hans Christian Andersen and 
the rest. They were so negative, with no hope or purpose in the bad 
endings.


Tonks:
Ah, but they do have a purpose. I know a Psychologist who once told 
his client that the client had flunked their fairytale reading as a 
child and assigned him to read the Grimm tales. These stories and 
stories like them are used to convey deep truth. There is a type of 
psychotherapy that uses metaphor to bring about the change in the 
client that the client longs for. This type of story has been used 
since the beginning of time when our ancestors were sitting around 
the firelight listening to the wise men and women of the tribe. It 
is one of the best ways to teach deep truth because it bypasses our 
conscious mind and seeps into our soul.

Do I think that this is the type of story that JKR is writing? Yes!!

Tonks_op