What's With All The Bloodlust?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 167008

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble <k.coble at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I've been on this list for a long time now.  Mostly I'm all 
discussed- 
> out, having hashed through most of the issues already.  But I'm  
> continually amazed, and now kind of disappointed, at all of the 
posts  
> which seem to be almost GLEEFUL in their hope that Harry die.
> 
> What do those of you who insist on this eventuality expect to gain 
by  
> it?  Why the constant posts about how not only is it inevitable 
but  
> those of us who do not hope for Harry's death are too foolish to  
> appreciate Great Literature?
> 
> This last book is going to be hard on all of us.   We're die-hard  
> fans for whom these books have become a sort of good friend.    
> Regardless of any outcome in DH itself, the ending of these books  
> will be a eucatastrophe for many of us.    Something we love is  
> over.  Whether Harry dies or Harry lives, the series will have  
> 'died', in that it's lifespan will be over.
> 
> I think it's difficult enough for us to deal with the death of the  
> series itself, that for many fans the death of Harry or certain 
other  
> beloved characters is not something we like to ponder.
> 
> There are a lot of posts hitting my inbox over the last week which  
> seem almost cruel in the relentless way they predict Harry's 
death.    
> Why are those of you who write those posts so insistent on that 
point  
> of view?  It seems like a lot of puppy-kicking.


Alla:

I have to say that I think most regulars here know that I do not 
**want** Harry to die and I do not **believe** that he will die.

Insistance that Arthur Levine sobbing proves anything amuses me I 
have to confess.

I see an excellent public relations in making it a secret whether 
Harry lives or dies and keeping fans in suspence.

I see **nothing else** in his interview that indicates with certainty 
that Harry will die.

I also think that Harry alive, happy, triumphant will make an 
excellent literature as well ( Odyssey, anyone?)

Having said that, what puppy-kicking?

Fans who want Harry to die, well, they want him to die for the 
variety of different reasons ( none of them are convicing to me, but 
they are good reasons, no?)


I guess it is easy for me to understand the desire to see fictional 
character die sometimes, LOL.


I mean I do not get desire to see Harry dead, but I understand the 
principle, hehe.

I am certainly very bloodfirsty in my desire to see Snape dead or 
suffer.

In my case it is simple desire to see the character who hurt my 
favorite characters so very badly pay for it - with his life, or 
dignity or both. It is the same thing when people want Voldemort 
dead. I want Snape dead for the same reasons, or at least for the 
same principle.

I want baddies pay in fiction. I think that while there are books 
when they do not, Potterverse is not one of them.

In case of Harry dying, people probably just like tragedies, etc, 
think it is cool for him to die young and heroic or something.

That is to me just as valid as me not wanting him to die so very 
badly.

JMO,

Alla.