The Fundamental Message of the HP books? (was Re: Appeal of the story ...)

Shaunette Reid strawberryshaunie at yahoo.ca
Mon Oct 1 20:42:23 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 177627


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at ...> wrote:
[huge snip]
> I had also expected that Moaning Myrtle would somehow play an
> instrumental role in the defeat of her murderer and therefore be able
> to finally leave her toilet and move on to "the next great
> adventure." I was never comfortable with how Myrtle's misery was
> presented as a joke. I mean, she's a little girl who was murdered!
> Doesn't she ever get to rest in peace? But her situation never gets
> resolved.
[more snippage]

I don't know whether this has been addressed by now, I'm obviously very
behind in my reading (as usual), but I thought I'd point out that Myrtle
*chose* not to rest in peace. She is not a miserable ghost because she
was murdered. She was *determined* not to go on because she wanted to
haunt a girl who made fun of her...Olive Hornby, I think it was.






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