No progress for Slytherin? (Was: Slytherins: selfish, not evil)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 173177

> Magpie:
> I wasn't expecting a wholly revolutioned WW--definitely not. I
> admit I *was* expecting something that felt like a definitive step 
> towards house integration, meaning a real reaching out and 
> compromise on both sides. That's exactly what I felt JKR was 
> putting her authorial foot down on on all sides. She really doesn't 
> seem to consider it the big problem I do, more just the way things 
> are--in her words, something we could hope would be better, but 
> seems out of reach and not a priority to work for. 


Jen: Like you, I expected there to be some move toward unity and 
wondered not only why it didn't happen but why the insistence on 
showing just how far-fetched that idea was?  

I've had many answers over the last few days, most mirroring thoughts 
already posted here.  Then tonight for some reason I recalled a 
seminar with artists representing various creative pursuits.  The 
discussion was something like: 'the responsibility to the public vs. 
responsibility to the personal creative process.'  Of course no 
consensus was reached as to how much moral responsibility a person 
creating any work holds when it comes to offering their creation to 
the public.

Thinking about the questions raised at that event however, I wondered 
if the authorial voice and JKR's voice really are one in the same 
throughout the entire story?  Does JKR look at the WW and think 'I 
really see no difference' when considering how the Slytherins played 
out or is it possible she too found herself angered by the WW even 
though she technically created it and should be able to manipulate it 
to include a more palatable ending for Slytherin House?  

I could see how the possibility exists that the world JKR created 
moved in a direction that she herself wasn't in favor of and yet, 
that's what seemed to be the reality of the choices the people in 
this particular world would make.  In the interview being quoted 
about the hope for harmony, I didn't get the sense that JKR was 
talking about her own morality so much as how she viewed the morality 
of the WW.  I don't think those have to be one in the same by any 
stretch although it's possible she will defend her choice to the 
death.  Then I will chalk this post up to a Babbling Beverage. 

Jen R.