Dumbledore asking Harry to kill (Was: High Noon for OFH!Snape)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 149534

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at ...> wrote:
> 
> I mean, there's *something* in the story JKR is concerned about when 
> she mentions she may lose all her readers or have only 6 people 
> reading by the end (as if). Maybe it's this, maybe not, but when I 
> put myself in her shoes trying to sort out the tower, it *will* be 
> divisive if internet fandom is any indication of readership at large 
> (or would we be a skewed sample?!?). She gave us fair warning.

Tonks now:
I think that the reason some might be upset with the final ending is 
that it will be very evident to all that these are and have been all 
along books about the Gospel of Christ. As someone with a degree in 
Religious Studies I see it clearly in every book.  When the 
fundementalist find out that she has written Christ as an old wizard, 
they are going to be even more upset than they are about the whole 
witchcraft thing.  JKR will have to go hind out with the Danish 
cartoonist. Some will put her in the catagory with C.S. Lewis and other 
will want to linch her. Some non-christians will be angry that she has 
smuggled the Gospel into the schools and into their homes and hearts. 
Some will feel that they have been had. Hopefully not a vast number, 
but some will not be happy when they find out the truth of what she has 
been writing.


To answer Nora:
When DD talks to Harry in the broom closet and seems proud of him for 
saying that he will take out LV and as many DE as possible, I think 
what DD is applauding is Harry's courage and determination, not the 
method of vanquishing LV. And when Harry ask later if he has to kill LV 
and DD answers, does he say "yes" or one of his "it would seem so" type 
answers? Because I too would be very surprised if Harry kills anyone. 
He doesn't have it in him to do that and that is not the theme of the 
books.

Now some have said that C.S. Lewis, while telling a Christian story, 
has his young heroes kill. I really don't think that JKR is going to go 
there. This is a different era and the concept of a just war is a bit 
different today, at least in some circles.

Tonks_op