JKR is a Death Eater? (was:Re: Hobbsian worlds; Crime & Punishment)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 145922

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> It all comes back to the fact that JKR is, I think, sometimes 
> rather naive about the messages she sends precisely BECAUSE she's 
> usually focused on the story and doesn't consider as much as she 
> maybe should the "wider" implications of some of her plot points.  
> All of which is to say I don't think we'll have a clear and 
> unconflicted statement on these issues in Book VII -- if only 
> because it's very late in the day to go into the complexities of 
> all this.  We may very well see some nod at House Unity or Good 
> Slytherins, but a nod is about all we have time for.  Check the 
> box and move on to the Great Horcrux Hunt.
> 
The greatest literary works - e.g., the Bible, Shakespeare, Joyce - 
are filled with contradictory and irreconcilable elements. Life and 
reality, for that matter, are themselves full of contradiction and 
paradox. Granting much of what you say, you seem to think the 
narrative incongruities cannot but suggest some flaw (deep-rooted or 
otherwise) in JKR. I think that the dissonant and disharmonious 
aspects of the Potter novels are reflective of a literary work of the 
first magnitude.  The "contradictions" you list above will endure 
that generations yet unborn will go online (or whatever our clever 
posterity do) to debate the "true" meaning of the Potterverse, just 
as Shakespearean scholars stil come up with the most widely 
contradictory theories. 

   - CMC

I've put so many enigmas and puzzles [into Ulysses] that it will keep 
the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and 
that's the only way of insuring one's immortality (besides a Horcrux, 
of course).

    - James Joyce (parenthetic remarks may be inauthentic)