Fly on the wall commentator

[rolshan2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 174931

The curses were Unforgivable in peacetime (like murder), things are 
different in wartime. Harry could not issue them because he was still 
too young and innocent. He (and I identified with this thoroughtly) 
had seen enough by end of DH to have sufficient maturity and anger to 
wield them (again, think of deadly weapons).

Not all evil people are death eaters was indeed true throughout the 
novel (as most clearly shown in the ministry, with respect to the 
ease with which the bureacrats were corrupted). There were good 
Slytherins - Slughorn fought (against all his instincts!) until the 
end and Snape was revealed to have been loyal to Dumbledore and brave 
in fulfilling his mission. The fact that this did not make 
Snape "good" shows the complexity of the world (not only are not all 
bad people deatheaters but not all people against Voldermort are 
good).

To me all of that is exquisitely consistent with the earlier books.

I did not mean to descend into metacommentary, but stand by my 
statement that many of the criticisms (not all) seem to be from 
people who were reading a different series.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at ...> 
wrote:
>> 
> colebiancardi:
> 
> 
> Also, I do not believe that "many posters got derailed into some
> parallel HP series".  Canon through-out the first 6 books gave us
> insight into "not all evil people are DH" and that there might be 
some
> good Slytherians out there.  We saw the Unforgiveable Curses being
> names as such and through out the series, Harry could not issue 
such a
> curse because he never had it in him.  That is not a parallel HP
> series;  those are the writings of JKR.
> 
> To think that those who were expecting more on these lines of 
thought
> and to suggest they were reading some other books is absurd in my
> opinion. 
>