Re: [HPforGrownups] rec: Missing from 'Harry Potter' – a real moral struggle

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 173252

CJ, Taiwan:

> I've come to the conclusion that HP has not so much an obscure moral as
> it does obscured morals. Yes, children do recognize the moral issues
> involved, but in this case that's not necessarily a good thing. I've
> already mentioned the experience I had with my son who, at ten year of
> age, was already able to recognize the moral cloud hanging over Harry's
> use of the Unforgivable Curses: "But I thought they were bad?", he said.
> So how could good guys be using them?


montims:
a good lesson for your son - good guys do bad things, bad guys do good
things.  NOBODY is good all through or bad all through.  I think this is a
very good moral to be drawn from JKR's septology...  There are too many
images of perfection - supermodel bodies, everloving families, eversmiling
friends, etc, etc - held out to susceptible people who feel failures because
they don't match up, and lose their tempers sometimes, or eat too much
chocolate...  Time for a reality check.


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