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

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 179909

>
> > 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?


montims:

I read different books than you - I see rivalry (like Oxford v. Cambridge,
like City v. United), not hatred (like communists v. fascists, like
republican v. unionist), and if a reader doesn't get all those references,
they cannot read HP without imposing their own standards, IMO.


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