[HPforGrownups] Re: The Fundamental Message.../ Heroes...

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 176342

Betsy Hp:


I mean, the WW is exactly as it was when Voldemort came to power, so 
it's not like Dumbledore, Harry or the Order have achieved anything 
to slow down the next Evil Overlord when he or she pops up.  Harry is 
a happy slave owner, the Houses are still ranked and at each other's 
throats, magical creatures are still on the bottom of the pile.  
Probably about the only thing that's changed is it's a bad thing to 
be a pure-blood (as per Ron's little remark).  Which just means a 
change in fashion, not a change in outlook or understanding.  So, 
yeah... petty.  


Irene:

I was horrified by that remark. Imagine if we had heard Draco making a similar remark in that epilogue: "don't get too friendly with that girl, grandpa Lucius will be horrified." And Ron's remark is completely symmetric, and just as rasist (or whatever your analogy to the blood issue in Potterverse). Then again, I don't know why was I surprised. Hagrid said in book 1 - Malfoys are bad blood, nothing good will ever come out of this boy. 7 books was too long to hope for a reversal, I should have realised sooner what JKR is about.

There is this quote somewhere, that when a slave dreams of a better world, the dream is not about everyone being free, it's about him being slaveowner.

JKR's idea of the reversal of a bad situation is another bad situation.

Irene