CHAPDISC: HBP1, The Other Minister

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141802

 
> SSSusan:

> And then this "I wanted to use this before" chapter which had us 
all 
> thinking, "Oh, boy!  BIG stuff!"  Only to have it be "just" a 
meeting 
> between the WW and MW head honchos.  
> 
> Truth be told, I have a hard time imagining just how JKR would've 
> used this earlier.  There would have been so much less to share 
> between the two men.  I could see it, sort of, at the start of 
PoA, 
> and perhaps by the time of OoP, but I cannot imagine it as early 
as 
> PS/SS.
> 
I am more interested to know why she wanted to use it at all. I 
mean, it is not in the least surprising that she should have taken 
pains to *separate* the two worlds in the previous five books. It is 
a feasible solution plot-wise besides enabling her to avoid some 
inevitable awkwardness where muggle/wizard inequality is concerned. 
In the HBP, however, not only we have the detestable Dursleys 
receiving yet another portion of their just deserts, but effectively 
the whole muggle world at wizards' mercy. Honestly, I don't quite 
see why it has suddenly become so important and what sort of message 
she means to convey. 

a_svirn