Failed Friendships / JKR's Opinion (was:Re:Draco, Narcissa and Harry)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179860

> Betsy Hp:
> ...will be exactly the same.  After all, they have the exact same 
> issues passing between them: cut-throat quidditch games and way too 
> serious attention paid to house points and all.  Slytherin and 
> Gryffindor will never be friends.  The rift has won.

Pippin:

Wh-at?? So, in your opinon the S/G hatred is about Quidditch and House
Points and has nothing to do with the fear of dark magic or pureblood
mania? But if so then all the Houses should be at each other's throats,
and they're not. 


Besides which nobody cares much about House Points past third year (we 
don't even find out who won the cup) and being too keen on Quidditch as
a grown up is viewed as slightly pathetic -- look at Bagman. 

OTOH, at the end of DH dark magic has been defeated. Scorpius has surely 
been raised to think he has enemies, but I doubt he's been raised to think 
dark magic is cool. Everyone saw the greatest dark
wizard who ever existed beaten by an Expelliarmus. That's what
people will remember. And they should, despite the Trio's
stumbles along the way. 

And pureblood mania has been diluted -- flawed reproductive
strategies are, after all, by definition self-limiting. 

> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Actually, JKR's opinion count's the *least* in my opinion.  Because 
> she's the one trying to tell us something.  It's *the reader's* call as 
> to whether or not she succeeded.  Like a pastry chef may feel he has 
> placed the most delicious cake in the world in front of you, but it's 
> your taste that will be the judge.

Pippin:
But it's not fair or useful criticism to douse the cake with catsup and 
then complain that it didn't improve the taste, or insist that the chef 
has made  an apple pie and as an apple pie the cake is lousy. Like it or
not, the author's intent counts for something.

Pippin