Comparative Lit Analysis Predictions WAS Re: HP/ Spoiler alert

[mycropht33]

No: HPFGUIDX 129596

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> mycropht33: "I personally have been a member of this group a long
> time, and have lurked for almost 2 years now (or better...can't even
> remember when I joined.) I am getting really tired of people using
> their "predictions" as some sort of flexing of intellectual muscle. An
> educated guess is an educated guess. It doesn't necessarily mean anything.
> 
> Sorry for coming off cranky. It's just been a sore point for me for
> awhile now."
> 
> You're not the only one.  I'm a charter member and it makes me nuts,
> but there's no point complaining.  It's not going to stop, any more
> than the Jack the Ripper theories will (27 suspect theories and
> counting).  No one casting these theories ever seems deterred that
> their theories never, ever turn out.
> Actually, IMHO, there's other tools for analyzing the text than
> finding tiny little snippets on which castles are built. Here's a few,
> and I'd be delighted to see others added.


Funny--I got into this group because I thought it was going to be more comparative Lit 
Analysis than it has turned into.   I've already gone into one tirade in the last month on 
another group about the villainy of prooftexting when analyzing literature.  Trying to not 
go into it here again.  

My theory on the books?  I like to leave the mechanics to JKR, because she's telling a damn 
good story as is and I trust her to keep doing so.  In a nutshell I think the overall point of 
the books is to serve as a combination Morality Play and fable about the villainy of class 
warfare and jingoism.