Twist JKR? (was:Re: Dumbledore's pleading...)

[Michell Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 141580

Nora  wrote: 
"There are, natch, many different categories of payoff. You have to leave open the possibility that she's been laughing at how we've contorted ourselves to explain Snapeykins, while the reality is something far more direct. The reality is certainly something that she knows, and likes to drop little hints to us about how she knows it and we don't." 

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CH3ed: Great analysis! I agree with pretty much everything especially with the quote above. I find JKR very creative and very realistic at the same time. Her WW is a wonderful fantasy and yet so true to the real world that when I get down nowadays I start looking around for a dementor. I love the metaphors of the boggarts being a person's deepest fear, and the way to neutralize it is to make fun of it in a rather practical term (one has to imagine how to manipulate what you fear into doing something funny), or the dementors being the stand in for depression (which one repels by remembering the good things, the happy things), or getting ones soul sucked out by a dementor being comparable to becoming a vegetable (poor Sunny Von Bulow, etc), etc. 

   JKR insists there would not be a Book 8, but I'm still hoping she would consider writing the actual 'Hogswart: A History', and other texts mentioned in the series. Keeping my fingers crossed (and trying hard but unsuccessfully to cross my stubby toes, too).

CH3ed



		
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