Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 147450

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:

Sydney:
 I'm going to hazard that there ISN'T going to
> be an ESE!character at all, barring Voldemort.  
> 
<SNIP> 
> 
> I enjoy mystery stories, but there's a reason the genre isn't known
> for producing great works of literature.  Fiction at it's best, IMO,
> is about acknowleding our common humanity, and characters growing (or
> not) by coming to terms (or not!) with all sides of their nature, the
> good and the bad.  The central drive of a classic detective story is
> the separating and casting out of a scapegoat, and that's just
> antithetical to really.. what's the word?  nutritious?  literature. 

<SNIP>

> Lord, I hate villain-driven plots..


Renee:
But... isn't that precisely what the Potter books have been so far: a
series of villain-driven plots? It seems to me that, detective story
or no, you do identify Voldemort as a (or *the*) scapegoat if he's the
exception to your claim there won't be an ESE! character in book 7. Of
course, there's an overwhelming amount of evidence to support this. In
a way, Voldemort represents all that is rotten in the Wizarding World,
and Book 7 will show how he's going to be cast out, or so we're led to
believe. If this will be the case, wouldn't that make the Potter
series antithetical to "nutritious" literature?  
    

Sidney: 
> anyways, I think the classic
> mystery structure is particularily inappropriate for the conclusion of
> a children's book with a lot of spiritual themes like Harry
> Potter,with it's hinted denoument in the Room of Love, and I don't see
> it heading in an ESE! direction for anyone, really. 

Renee:
Are you still barring Voldemort here, or do you include him in the
"anyone"? If this is not a story about a scapegoat (and like you, I
tend to think it isn't), will even he be redeemed? 

Renee