Waking up from the dead in HP /some Buffy spoilers WAS: Re: prophecy

[Maria Vaerewyck]

No: HPFGUIDX 157729

Dave:
> So you mean it's like the episode of _Red Dwarf_ where the crew
> hallucinate so that they *think* that their years on the big
> crimson spaceship was just an elaborate "total immersion" video
> game and that reality is that they are oppressed citizens in a
> futuristic fascist dictatorship on Earth.  Then they "wake up" back
> on the ship, and find that Red Dwarf *is* the reality after all.

Maria Vaerewyck:
Yes, something like that.

Dave:
> I guess these kind of "which is the dream and which is reality?"
> ideas have been played with at least since Lewis Carroll's
> _Sylvie and Bruno_, but somehow I doubt Jo would go there...
>
> Or would she??

Maria Vaerewyck:
I hope not or else it would be a big disappointment to all the
readers, especially to the children. I for one would be highly
disappointed, as I want the ending of HP to be realistic as it is, not some kind of dreams by the main character.

Sometimes they use this kind of theme in Star Treks series as well
(ST next Generation and ST with the female captain, for Treky
fans :-)).

Dave:
> P.S. I once considered using this theme in an Oz pastiche I'm
> working on, in order to explain why Dorothy thinks Oz is a dream at
> the end of the MGM film, even though it's very real for her in the
> books; but I was advised against it on the grounds that any Oz book
> that alludes to Hollywood adaptations *can't* be a good thing... :)


Maria Vaerewyck:
Yes, you'll be facing legal consequences unless of course you ask
permision from whomever is in charge of this in Hollywood.