fading importance of adult characters

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 146897

Jen: 

JKR isn't writing about the adult characters with as much depth as I'd 
like to read. There are too many of 'em. Spending so much page time on 
Riddle evolving into Voldemort and revealing the horcuxes storyline 
makes me think most everything else will drop by the wayside in Book 
7, that unless a character has importance to the horcrux search and 
the final battle they will fall out. Snape's story may have served its 
main purpose, even if not yet wholly resolved.

Jen, hoping she is dead wrong and there are many sizzling mysteries 
left to be revealed.


Sherry now:
This is actually a great transition into a sort of overall theory I've had
for a long time.  JKR has methodically taken away the adults who are
important to Harry, in order for him to have the traditional "hero's
journey" and all that jazz.  i actually was bored with all the back story of
Voldemort and the horcruxes in HBP, even though I understood this was the
key to Harry being able to defeat him.  But I believe the story will come
down to being about the kids in the story.  The kids will help Harry, betray
Harry, sacrifice for Harry.  i think the adults will take more of a back
seat role.  we will have to have some Snape, of course, and I think there
will be some Lupin, if for nothing else to give Harry some knowledge about
his parents.  We have been told there is something significant about the
death of Sirius, so we might get more info about him.  But i think the
adults will be less important to the story than we adult readers might like.

Even if RAB is Regulus, he must have been quite young when he stole the
locket from the cave, more like the age of the twins perhaps, so again,
though from an earlier generation, a young person, not one of the adults.

For this reason, and for how it was set up on the tower in HBP, i do think
Draco will have more of a role to play.  i think he may be the person Harry
dislikes that he may have to learn to view differently, and that has already
begun.  i don't think I see them becoming buddies, and i don't necessarily
agree that Draco always wanted to be friends, as Betsy believes.  But I
think Draco has a role to play, and I think the letting go of the past
animosity between Draco and Harry, will be more important than letting go of
the hatred between Snape and Harry.  The kids are the heroes in the story,
and I think their time to shine will be in book seven.  

I'm not necessarily happy about this either, because I love some of the
adult characters.  i want more about Sirius and the Potters.  I want Lupin
to step into the mentor role, or if it's really too late for a mentor, then
into the role of adult friend, the bridge between Harry and his parents in a
way.  The marauders back story is of more interest to me than any other side
story or sub plot, and I'd love to know more about their incredible
friendship.  But I think I'm out of luck, and it will be Harry, his friends
and even his enemies in his own age group, who will be the stars in the last
book.

Sherry