Andromeda as good Slytherin WAS: Disappointment

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 177656

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> > Prep0strus:
> > But just because Voldy didn't create something and his defeat doesn't
> > change it doesn't mean the story can't address it.  JKR created house
> > elf slavery as an issue. 
> 
> Pippin:
> The House Elf liberation subplot and the Dobby subplot  each have  a 
> beginning, a middle and an end. That the endings aren't as hopeful 
> as you expected is not the same as leaving  them unfinished. 

Montavilla47:
Just want to say that I never really looked at those subplots as 
being separate, but it makes total sense now that you point it 
out.
 
> Pippin:
> It isn't necessary for Elves to want freedom in order for wizards 
> to see them as exploited. Ron's change of heart is the first glimmer 
> of hope that a wizard who saw nothing wrong with the status quo 
> could change his mind.  

Montavilla47:

Here's the part where I have a problem, because I *don't* see any
change of heart here.  The Ron who thinks about warning the 
House-Elves about the battle doesn't seem any different than
the Ron who exposes Hermione's booby-hats in the common
room so that the elves will have a choice about whether or not
they want to become free.

So, that moment all the culmination of the S.P.E.W. subplot
fell flat for me.  Even if it did have the big sloppy kiss that 
every Ron/Hermione shipper had been waiting for for
seven books.