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

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 141629

>> >>Nora:
>> That would be a quantum leap in his character, to get over his
>> self-centeredness (and yes, that does include his elevation of his
>> blood kin as more deserving of consideration than many others), so
>> we can't rule it out.
>
> Betsy Hp:
> The idea of leaving your family to die being an example of selfless
> good is exactly the kind of backwords thinking that threw me out of
> the last Star Wars movie.  Voldemort was certainly willing to
> sacrifice his family.  We're setting him up as an example of "The
> Good" now?

Magpie:

This line is a little difficult because putting the consideration of "them" 
over "us" isn't something many characters have been challenged on yet, and 
family is so important.  I felt like the story of Books 6 and 7 was where 
this was going to be most important after HBP.

Draco was pushed more in that direction than, say, Peter when his life and 
his family's life were threatened if he didn't take the life of someone who 
wasn't blood kin, and was possibly considered the enemy.  He doesn't seem to 
yet have really figured out exactly why this was a problem for him.

-m