[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's plans in HBP.

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 162737

Eggplant:

I don't believe JKR is trying to send a moral message clear or
otherwise, nor should she. Like any novelist her first responsibility
is just to write a good story. Therefore in her books we have no
reason to assume good will always be rewarded or evil always punished.
Fortunately.

Lynda:

I don't think that JKR is trying to send a moral message either. She is
writing a story and that is her responsibility to her readers, to write a
good story. Will moral messages be carried in the story? Inevitably. Will
they at times be unclear or even missing because it is in the end not a
fable that is being written? That is also inevitable, but since I don't
think that the moral is the ultimate goal of the story, but that the story
itself is the goal, it doesn't work me over extraordinarily when the moral
gets lost for awhile. I have so far found that it reappears, although maybe
in a slightly altered form.

Lynda


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