Individual issues and JKR (was Re: Snape and the "Chosen One" )

[xuxunette]

No: HPFGUIDX 153567

Ginger:
> At any rate, one of her main themes is about choices, and how one's
> actions and character are more important than the circumstances of
> one's birth.
>
> That's why I was disappointed.  It seems to go against what she has
> previously said so clearly.


xuxu:
I just realised that I may have been a quite harsh in my wording in
the previous reply, it was not intended to hurt anyone's feelings, and
 I would like to present my apologies if it is the case.

You are absolutely right about the difference between words reflecting
the choices we makes and those qualifying the lot we have been born with.

In fact, what I intended to mean is that the term in question is a bit
more than one of the latter and may actually fit better in the former
category. For me, it is a word that is more evoking of the practices
of stricly endogamous marriages conforming to beliefs of blood/race
purity, rather than a mere adjective adressing the childs resulting of
said unions.

That's why I don't think that when JKR used said term she meant to
stygmatize the pure-blood childs, but rather was set to criticize the
    xenophobic beliefs common amongst pure-bloods.

And then sometimes, in disregard of conventions, people just fall in
love with each others, and that is a different matter altogether. I
don't think JKR has said anything against that. In any case I wouldn't.

The problem with PCness is that we end up using words meaning nothing
at all. Is 'genetically homogenous' even a scientific truth? What
about 'born of two persons who love each other'?