Request for new topics

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 152372

Lately most of the posts on this list have involved attacking or at
least passing judgment on certain characters, primarily Merope and
other female characters (and, of course, Snape and Dumbledore). Rather
than imposing our own standards of behavior and morality on people who
have no way of knowing what postmodern Muggles think is right or wrong
and probably would not care if they did know, or arguing about which
is worse, Ginny's immature hostility to Fleur or Fleur's tactless
indifference to the family's tastes in food and music, can we try to
come up with some new ideas that actually help us find meaning in the
books? Not Horcruxes, please, unless someone can find something new to
say about them. I could talk about foreshadowing and narrative
technique, but I'd probably put everyone to sleep.

Ideas, anyone? Any themes we can discuss besides love, revenge, and
immortality? Can we look at the books themselves instead of our own
lives and social views?

BTW, does anyone besides me think that Ron's remark in HBP about
Draco's Hand of Glory is a Flint? Draco (or rather Lucius) didn't buy
the Hand of Glory in CoS, just at the point when Lucius was selling
Dark artifacts because he was anticipating a Ministry raid. How could
Ron know that Draco had the Hand of Glory, and when could Draco have
bought it? Is it the thing he didn't want to be seen carrying down the
street? If so, Ron is wrong that he already had it.

Carol, hoping for a cessation of hostilities and fresh ideas in what
used to be an enjoyable forum