[HPforGrownups] Waking up from the dead in HP /some Buffy spoilers WAS: Re: prophecy

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 157690


Maria Vaerewyck wrote:

MV> Yes, JKR made that clear, but what I mean is, Buffy wasn't at all 
MV> dead, all the slaying stuff was just in her mind. she's a schizo 
MV> patient and the doctor and her parents were trying to make her choose 
MV> or stick to getting better but she chose to being a slayer and be with 
MV> her friends, hence the vampire slaying stuff continue and it became 
MV> her reality.I do not know if anybody from this list watched that 
MV> eppisode of Buffy. So it's more like waking up and it's all just a bad 
MV> dream.

Dave:

So you mean it's like the episode of _Red Dwarf_ where the crew
hallucinate so that they *think* that their years on the big
crimson spaceship was just an elaborate "total immersion" video game
and that reality is that they are oppressed citizens in a futuristic
fascist dictatorship on Earth.  Then they "wake up" back on the ship,
and find that Red Dwarf *is* the reality after all.

I guess these kind of "which is the dream and which is reality?"
ideas have been played with at least since Lewis Carroll's
_Sylvie and Bruno_, but somehow I doubt Jo would go there...

Or would she??

--
Dave (Hoping the people here who aren't fans of Buffy OR Red Dwarf
       OR Lewis Carroll aren't totally lost.) :)

P.S. I once considered using this theme in an Oz pastiche I'm working
on, in order to explain why Dorothy thinks Oz is a dream at the end of
the MGM film, even though it's very real for her in the books; but I
was advised against it on the grounds that any Oz book that alludes to
Hollywood adaptations *can't* be a good thing... :)