Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7? (was:How to contstruct an ESE!plot

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
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> I think that the last book will be a sort of reverse-mystery, where
> the world isn't full of hidden evil to be cast out, but full of 
hidden
> good to be drawn in.  Snape, obviously; Draco, less obviously; and
> Regulus with the huge backstory;  the life-debt thing with (ugh)
> Pettigrew; the off-stage Slytherin kids in general;  the strange
> contradiction between the history teacher's version of the 
Slytherin
> split and the Sorting Hat's... to me there seems an overwhelming
> pattern of the unresolved issues leading into the last book.  
> 

Well, that would make, IMO, for an incredibly insipid and poor 
ending.  "Oh, guess what, all these people aren't really bad after 
all!  Let's all join hands and defeat Voldemort, the only true 
evil!"  Talk about unsatisfying, cheesy, and badly written!

Now, there are of course shades of grey that may be drawn out, but 
hidden good?  Snape is a child abuser, and JKR must punish him for 
that to right the karmic balance.  Draco is an attempted murderer.  
Pettigrew, as many point out, an actual murderer.  All have their 
roles to play, true.  Some will fit in one way, some another.  But 
redemption and common humanity?  That would just be plain -- silly, 
IMO.

Lupinlore