Deathly Hallows Reaction - Could do Better, Sorry

[Feng Zengkun]

No: HPFGUIDX 172593

Betsy Hp:
> <snip> JKR 
> apparently looks at the world around her and thinks, "I know in my 
> heart that a quarter of the people out there are evil, half of them 
> are okay, and there's one quarter that's just unquestionably good."
> 
> It's an ugly view of the world in my opinion.  And it cumlminates
> in a rather ugly book with a rather ugly message.  

Shagufta:
> So you think the world is made up of good people and only good
> people? This world of ours where murder and torture and terrorism
> are a sad reality - this world is made up of good people?
> 
> I think JK is spot on - the world is made up of the good and the
> evil and in her words (roughly paraphrasing) all we can do is
> fight the evil again and again and yet again, until perhpas, one
> day, it becomes too weak to take over.
> 
> That's the message of the books IMO, and a wonderful message for
> our times.


nightmasque at yahoo.com writes:
I don't think that was the point at all. I think the
point Betsy was making was that it was simplistic of
Rowling to divide the good and bad people into
Gryffindors and Slytherins respectively; to use your
analogy, it would be like saying all Slytherins are
terrorists, and all Gryffindors are defendors of
liberty and freedom and all that good stuff. It has
been pointed out elsewhere that all the Slytherins who
were on the 'good side' so to speak were given
ulterior motives for doing so, i.e. Snape's was Lily.
I myself can't think of (m)any Slytherins who were
shown to be on the good side (mainly) because they
were good innately; therefore the message of this book
at least seemed to be that Slytherin = Bad, no
exceptions. Which IS an ugly message to be putting out
there.

This however is slightly mitigated by the otherwise
atrocious epilogue, when Harry doesn't seem to mind if
his son is sorted into Slytherin. But one paragraph
does not alleviate an entire book's / series's ugliness.

nightmasque at yahoo.com