Sympathy to the characters? Fake Moody, Weasleys, Hermione

Renee vinkv002 at planet.nl
Tue Oct 17 08:32:22 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 159835


>
> > Renee:
> > Eh, I don't think I'm following this. Is claiming that someone won't
> > turn evil the same as claiming they're flawless? Or did you snip
> > something essential here?

Random832:

> You' said (below, as i mentioned - i think i left the quote in too,
> but i might have snipped it in a later editing pass) that you didn't
> believe she would end up doing something stupid (your word was
> "idiotic") that would put the group in danger, solely because she's
> JKR's "alter ego". I don't buy that, because it doesn't make sense
> that she'd be exempt from having flaws (or even that she'd somehow
> only have harmless "quirky" flaws) just because of that - because JKR
> is a good author.
> 
Renee:
Sorry, but I didn't say anything of the kind; it was Alla who said it.
I merely wondered how `flawed' could equal `evil'. In my book, doing
something very bad/idiotic/stupid is still not the same as turning evil. 






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