Whose side are we on??

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>Katie:

>Ok, I agree with many things you wrote in your reply  - especially about the 
whole escapist reader thing, however, I really would not  want my kids to be 
like Luna. I love Luna, but she allows herself to be bullied.  I don't think 
it's a positive attribute that she allows people to steal things  from her and 
ridicule her to her face and she doesn't speak up for herself. The  reason 
bullies remain bullies is because they are allowed to be. 

>Betsy hp
>But until those changes occur, I 
just can't rubber stamp Hermione's  or Harry's or even Ron's point of 
views. There's too much that is  questionable there, so I question. 
<g> Honestly, I'm betting that  we're supposed to question. I think 
JKR is being very sneaky and Harry and  company are quite wrong in 
some of their assumptions and  prejudices.

Nikkalmati:
 
I have been following with amazement this very long thread and I think the  
discussion exposes some very different ideas we have of proper human  behavior. 
 Yes, the Twins are a bit over the top (and I don't like  pranksters in RL, 
it's just not funny to me), but IMO neither the twins nor  Hermione are on the 
slippery slope to LV-dom.  I have been looking for a  comment that embodies 
for me what I think JKR is going for here and I think  Katie has it right.  She 
wants to show kids, good and bad, that you just  can't get away with 
everything.  Someday some one is going to call you on  it - personally.  Just as the DA 
members hexed Draco and friends into slugs  and Dursley got his comeuppance.  
I really don't think JKR is going to show  us that the "good guys" were out 
of line (more than she has with Arthur  instructing the Twins that they were 
behaving badly).  Of course, it helps  that the WW is does not have competent 
adult authority, either parental or  political, to deal with the "bad guys.'  
That's the world she made.  I  also think she wants to show that her heroes are 
human that human emotions  happen and part of maturing is learning how to deal 
with them. Failing to behave  in a mature manner is not "evil."
Nikkalmati   


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