[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: DH1, The Dark Lord Ascending

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 176246


On 2007, Aug 25, , at 12:23, Geoff Bannister wrote:

> Why did JKR create Charity Burbage, Professor of Muggle Studies,
>  just to be killed by Voldemort in Chapter 1?
>
> She is effectively a non-entity. we have no other references to her
> and  I have to say that it left me emotionally untouched because
> she was a stranger, just another name in the long list of Voldemort's
> victims.That probably sounds callous but that often happens in real
> life situations.
>
> Had it been a name which we knew - even one of the lesser known
> staff such as Professor Sinistra or Professor Vector - for me, that
> would have had considerably more impact than the unfortunate
> victim we briefly met here.

Ah, but that is often the way with war.  The situation is horrible,
but I think, even though this is disgusting, I can stand it.  And
I begin to wonder about myself - do I think the horror of war less
horrible just because I didn't know this person?  How easy it is
to take a more distanced view when I don't really know the victim.

Laura
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Laura Lynn Walsh    lwalsh at acsalaska.net
http://llwcontemplations.blogspot.com



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