[HPforGrownups] Re: Sending Voldie through the Veil (Was: Where will the "great battle" be)

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No: HPFGUIDX 161967

KathyK:
> Hasn't Harry suffered enough?

Sarah:
A question only JK can answer.  And she has, repeatedly, saying that
she plans for him to suffer plenty.  I'm suggesting she's being
truthful.  I'm not the one who plans on making him suffer, she is.
I'm just the messenger, as well as a reader who enjoyed the past
books, even though they are very sad and frightening at times.  I may
come across as bloodthirsty, but I've often cried (at times in public)
while reading the books.  I think that books are supposed to take us
on an emotional journey, and that includes a range of emotions.  If
Harry sat on the porch and drank lemonade for seven years, I don't
think anyone would read these books.

KathyK:
 I can't think of another fictional
> character who has endured so much death in his life.

Sarah:
I don't think we've been reading the same books, because I can think
of an awful lot.

KathyK
> IMO when
> Book 7 is over Harry will feel like the weight of the world is off
> his shoulders.

Sarah:
I hope he doesn't, and don't think he will for the reasons Carol
posted above.  JK has already opened up many complex themes.
Political corruption, interblood and interspecies strife and
misunderstandings, oppression and slavery to name just a few.  Moody's
not the same after years of fighting Death Eaters, Lupin's not the
same after his experiences, Sirius certainly isn't the same after
enduring Azkaban, and I doubt that Dumbledore was the same after
defeating Grindelwald.  Dumbledore wasn't even the same after the
night Sirius died and he had to tell Harry about the prophecy.

If, after all this build-up, the big message JK has in store for us is
"But it's all going to be OK, hurray!" then I confess I will be
disappointed.  There are ways for her to write Harry surviving and
being pretty much all right for the most part that could still include
more serious themes, but plain old happily ever after isn't one of
them.

Sarah