Appeal of the story to the reader WAS: Re: Of Sorting and Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 175582

> houyhnhnm:
> > There *is* something mean spirited in the books. The stories 
> > appeal to the mean in readers and for some they are not nearly
> > mean enough, as we have ample evidence.
> 
> Jen:  What do you mean here, houhnhnm?  I'm intepreting it as a 
pretty 
> negative message about readers who like the story but don't want to 
go 
> any further if I'm misinterpreting or reading more into it than you 
> intended.
>


Alla:


This story appeals to me as a story of good triumphing over evil and 
enormous courage good had to display for that.

This story appeals to me as a story of sacrifice, remorse, redemption.

This story appeals to me as the story of one of the most touching 
friendships I had **ever** read in literature.

This story appeals to me as for the most part well done "Love will 
save the world".

This story appeals to me as story, which does not go for redemption 
of all evil, because just as in RL I do not find all evil to be 
redeemable.

This story appeals to me on so many levels, but appeals to the **mean 
in readers**?

Eh, NO, not for this reader.

Alla