[HPforGrownups] Re: horcruxes

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 179938

Alicia wrote:
> I hated that Molly killed Bellatrix! Harry should have to get
> back at her for killing Sirius, 

Carol responds:
> The privilege of killing? You make it killing for revenge sound
> like some sort of reward.

alicia responds:

> I am entitled to my opinion ... I wanted badly to see Harry
 > kill her. Or Neville.

Yes, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. Sure, it would have 
been "poetic justice" for Harry or Neville to dispatch Bellatrix. 
However, I think I'm with Carol on this one. Killing may be a necessity, 
it may be an unavoidable duty, it may even, on occasion, be a relief. 
But it is never something we should desire, for any reason.

Yes, we are inundated with the message. When's the last time you've seen 
a movie in which the bad guy was arrested and sent to prison? Not good 
enough -- bad guys must die.

But I, for one, find the concept of poetic justice troubling, because it 
speaks much more to the poetic than it does to justice. Sure, there are 
good reasons (if there CAN be any good reasons) for Harry or Neville to 
want Bella dead. But any outcome intended to assuage feelings is 
perilous. In the end, I think poetic justice is a closer cousin to 
revenge than it is to jurisprudence.

Yeah, you're right. Give JKR a break -- it's just a story, for Pete's 
sake. But I tend to be of the opinion that our tastes in entertainment 
are clues to who we are as individuals.

> I feel like JkR left too many loose ends, was ultimately
> disorganized, and contradicts herself too many times throughout the
> series.

On this point, I agree. Even for the loose ends she did manage to tie 
up, the knots too often felt contrived. And DH was a model of 
disorganization. Too bad. I really enjoyed most of the series.

CJ