The Future of SPEW

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126262


---lupinlore wrote:

> I suspect that if Hermione gets a comeuppance with SPEW (and I'm 
not 
> totally sure she will), it will be a purely tactical humiliation 
> having to do with her methods like leaving clothes lying around 
> randomly.  I doubt she is going to face any kind of re-evaluation 
of 
> her values or her overall strategy of working to free the elves.  

a_svirn:

Except that her methods are not *just* methods. They also reflect a 
certain set of values. And these values are getting increasingly 
slytherinish in the book 5, for she is not fussy about the means 
she's employing to achieve her ends. She is also being self-
righteously arrogant, and this is hardly an attitude JKR would 
sympathize with. JKR doesn't seem to approve those who operate in 
terms of "worthwhile causes" (e.g. LV, Percy, both Crouches). And 
however worthwhile Hermione's goals might be I think when it comes 
to elves it's Harry who channel JKR. He is genuinely interested in 
Dobby as a person, and by now genuinely hates Kricher, whereas 
Hermione sees them all as a "noble cause" rather than persons. 

a_svirn