War

[kaitoujuliet]

No: HPFGUIDX 142457

Hi!  Delurking to offer a comment on the war subject...

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ralph Miller" <papa at m...> wrote:

> Sometimes war is not optional and it requires violent and ugly
> acts from moral people.

Wellllll...that may be true in Real Life.  But in a fictional universe, 
war can be anything the author wants it to be.  It can be optional or 
not optional, just or unjust or questionable.  A fictional character 
*may* be able to engage in war without becoming ugly.  It's all in the 
spin the author gives it.

I humbly suggest that it would be more fruitful to ask what war means 
within J.K. Rowling's fictional universe, what Harry's decision means, 
and what the book is saying about the issues involved.

Juliet