Deathly Hallows Reaction - Could do Better, Sorry

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 172652

PM:
> 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. 


Magpie:
I don't think it's doing JKR a disservice. It seems like it's just 
acknowledging the very view that you're describing here--that's just 
what I got. The world was rid of that one evil and will stay okay 
until another evil comes back.

PM:
> 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.

Magpie:
I didn't think all Slytherins were evil but I absolutely did think 
that they were of a lower order than others--I felt like there was a 
very medieval flair to the story and the Slytherins were the non-
Christians or Damned or something like that. I absolutely saw a 
difference between Slytherins and the others, and when I went back 
to JKR's words about the subject she seemed quite open about that. 
So I don't think I'm saying anything wrong--I just don't have the 
same reaction to that idea as you do.

PM:
> 
> 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.

Magpie:
Well, it's based on your view of the world not necessarily the real 
world. You think it's a fairy tale to think the houses could be 
reunited, JKR obviously thinks it's a fairy tale to think the houses 
could be reunited. For some of us *that's* what seems like a narrow 
view. Perhaps you're also assuming that people are demanding a 
completely perfect world, which I don't think people are. The point 
isn't that some need the world to be perfect and happy puppies and 
flowers. I just didn't agree with the limits and attitudes set down 
in the book. Which is why we didn't have the same experience of the 
books and don't think they mirror the world or had a happy ending. 

-m