Cinderella (was:Re: Protection-Abuse / Patron-Client (was:re:Blood protection...

[Tesha]

No: HPFGUIDX 158641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>Tesha:
> > The Cinderella Story is the only real and true Cinderella story -
> > If HP WAS The Cinderella Story it wouldn't be Harry Potter it would
> > be... wait for it... The Cinderella Story.
> 
> Betsy Hp:

> (e.g. Was there one ball Cinderella attended or three?  Did the step-
> sisters mutilate themselves to try and fool the prince?  Were their 
> eyes pecked out by birds, were they forced into red-hot iron shoes, 
> or did Cinderella show them mercy? etc.)
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> But... that's not really the Cinderella story is it?  The father 
> should be dead.  The mother and sibling should be jealous of the 
> Cinderella figure.  They should covet the life the Cinderella figure 
> receives at the end of the tale.  And the magical figure should show 
> up only to rescue the Cinderella figure.  Not stick them into the 
> bad situation in the first place.  (Plus, Cinderella never had to 
> fight evil.)


> Tesha:
   You make your point then you un-make it??? The Cinderella story is
based on a very simple outline - that can be added to or embelished in
many ways. Right? We've all heard father dead, father traveling,
father sick, father under the thumb of the nasty step-mom... If you
get into specifics you lose Harry Potter and become Cinderella, right?
OK, my point is that the same basic outline is used to create the same
effect in the reader - we are meant to empathize with the hero.

oh, and btw - the Cinderella story I think you're recalling is the one
where the hero as a woman has no power at all and has to wait for
someone to save her - the fairy tale that warps women and sets up
false expectations every day. Do you know any "Cinder-fella" stories?
No fairy god-father comes along to make him a beautiful sequined suit
for the ball.....  he might slay a dragon... or become the king by
pulling the sword from the stone....   hhhmmmm an idea for a book!!!