Deathly Hallows Reaction - Could do Better, Sorry

[ohnooboe]

No: HPFGUIDX 172643

SNIP!> > > > It's an ugly view of the world in my opinion.  And it 
> cumlminates
> > > > in a rather ugly book with a rather ugly message.  
> > 
> > Betsy Hp:
> > 
> > Oh, and of course, once the Sorting is done, that's it.  There is 
> no 
> > hope for change.
> > 
> > > >>nightmasque@ writes:
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.
> > 
> > Betsy Hp:
> > Yes, that's it exactly.  Basically JKR is showing us that not 
only 
> > *can* you judge a child as to how good a human being he or she is 
> at 
> > a young age, you *should* judge them.  Oh, and they can never 
> > change.  Actions don't matter.  (The rare exceptions are only 
there 
> > to prove the rule.)
> > Betsy Hp
> >
>  Clara adds:

> Except... it didn´t happen.
> IMO, JKR missed an opportunity to change the Wizarding World´s age-
> old prejudices by uniting the four houses.
>  
> Instead, we learn that some houses are more equal than others.

> Clara, disappointed with the "Once an evil Slytherin, always an 
evil 
> Slytherin" subtext. 

I think you've all missed the boat completely.  JK makes a good point 
here.  All is not happy and puppy dogs and I think it would be a 
disservice to a series whose morality so closely mirrors the "real 
world."  All cannot be "happily ever after," rather it's 
just "well."  destroying Voldemort simply meant ridding the world of 
that one evil.  The end of WWII did not bring happiness and 
perfection to the world...it simply eliminated an evil and returned 
things to the way they were.  

She was never making the statement that ONLY Gryffindors are good and 
ONLY Slytherins are evil...we know that is not true.  Not all 
Gryffindors are without fault and not all Slytherins are evil.  
That's a rather narrow view of the books.

Thinking the houses to be reunited and the MoM to be cleaned up is 
completely unbelievable.  This is not a fairy tale.  It may be 
fantasy, but it's based in a world that very closely mirrors our 
own...and in our own nothing is every perfectly happy and ending the 
books that way would be completely contrary to the rest of the 
books.  That doesn't make it "ugly," it just makes it more believable.

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