Whose side are we on?? :was: Arthur right or not?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 156264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <joemurphyus at ...> wrote:
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> Joe:
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> Given JKR's work for Amnesty International might this be a metaphor 
> for authority figures in leading nations ignoring and therefore 
> giving tacit support for abuse of the powerless in many parts of the 
> world? 
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Possibly, and if so she has certainly succeeded, considering the 
abominable behavior of the adults around this issue.  Actually, 
though, I suspect it's more in the line of she was pressing forward 
with her outline and just didn't really think of it.  JKR seems to 
move the plot in spurts in the last couple of books.  We get hundreds 
of pages of wheel spinning then relatively brief periods of 
acceleration where everything else gets dumped to the side so that 
Point A can connect up with Point B.  Unfortunately, as in the case of 
DD and his speech at the end of OOTP, that kind of thing often ends up 
short-circuiting character, cutting across some very basic and 
important issues, and sending all kinds of unintended messages -- 
particularly if she wants us to take some of her interview remarks 
(most famously "epitome of goodness," and "very wise man") seriously.


Lupinlore, who would be at least faintly amused if the adults didn't 
act like ignorant and uncaring morons in the last book