fading importance of adult characters

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 146899

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes": 

> 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.  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.

Marianne:

I think this is highly likely, especially with all of the loose ends 
that are out there.  I'm sure that some of them will be tied up very 
expeditiously, or, if they are not particularly central to the 
denouement of the story, left to lie as something open-ended.

I'm thinking of the Percy story line.  Is it important that he 
reconcile with his family? Whatever the answer, that can be dealt 
with in a few sentences.  If he has no input into the horcrux hunt 
or to the final Harry/Vmort confrontation, then this whole part of 
his story may just be wrapped up, checked off the list and be done 
with.  Percy may only be someone who was introduced merely to give 
some depth and background to the Wizard world, and as a 
personification of how basically decent people can actively work to 
uphold a government that needs some basic overhauls. 
 
Sherry:
> 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.  

Marianne:
Which may also neatly deal with Redeemed!Snape.  Maybe he's not the 
one to be redeemed; maybe it's Draco. I know JKR said in an 
interview that she was shocked/surprised that her interviewer 
suggested there was a redemptive pattern to Snape.  Maybe her 
surprise was not so much that the interviewer mentioned *Snape*, but 
that the interviewer figured out relatively early in the serires 
that *redemption* would play a crucial role. Draco may be the one 
who turns from the Dark Side, which Snape ultimately will fail to do.

Marianne