How Unforgivable is Unforgivable

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 174400

Bart:

> And there's a third path; we can use the Harry Potter 
> novels as stepping off points to consider things that, 
> possibly, JKR never considered herself.

houyhnhnm:

Oh, this is a very good point.  The lasting value of the 
Harry Potter series, IMO, is its ability to stimulate 
argument and make us examine our own beliefs, not to 
provide a ready made world view that we can step into, 
shrugging off the responsibility to do our own moral reasoning.

I've seen the idea put forth in several posts that 
Rowling is the Writer.  She has the right to create 
it the way she wants.  (And we should not question?)  
Of course she does.  And I'm the Reader.  I have the 
right to interpret, criticize, and speculate. (A book 
without readers is like the sound of one hand clapping.)

In a sense, Rowling has given her characters life and 
sent them out into the world and now they belong to the world.