Want or need/Rules

[kchuplis]

No: HPFGUIDX 146025

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at a...> 
wrote:
> I have come to the conclusion now that perhaps the reason for this 
> is that JKR sees it as important for people to always make choices 
> based on what they want to do, right or wrong, and never based on 
> something outside of themselves.  

Can you expound on this theory? To me what you said is that JKR is 
advising people just always do whatever they want (which intimates 
that it doesn't matter to her if it causes hurt or not) but I don't 
*think* that is really what you mean to say. 

>The DEs are all sort of childish 
> in their dependence on Voldemort to tell them right and wrong. 

I, at least, haven't seen enough of the DE's to say for sure, but I 
don't see Voldemort as setting up a bunch of rules. There seems to be 
only one rule and that is "The only rule is "make me happy"". That's 
it. There are many ways to break that rule, but that really appears 
to be the only one and is pretty much the standard when it comes to 
meglomanical dictatorships. I don't see DE's as craving to be told 
what is right and wrong so much as craving to keep on the good side 
of the one they think has the most power.


>So I 
> think Rowling just may see it as important as everyone to feel 
above 
> the rules at times--by which I don't mean they should demand 
special 
> treatment, but that her people always make choices based on what 
> they want and not what someone else thinks is right.  


Do you really mean "what they want" as opposed to "what they see as 
right"? JKR aspousing a view of everyone should do what they want as 
opposed to what someone else thinks as right seems entirely opposite 
what I see when reading the books. Most of the time, I don't think 
Harry, at least, wants to do half of what he does. He feels compelled 
to do it however. Sometimes those two, want and need converge, but 
often, they seem to not be in line at all.  To me, that is a 
difference. 

kchuplis