Family and Other Loyalty

[mesmer44]

No: HPFGUIDX 177837

> > Alla:
> > I say she wanted to write **nasty** characters - Snape and
> > Lockhart and she wrote them. I do **not** know that she wrote
> > them **because** she wanted to exercise revenge over real people.

> lizzyben:
> Snape & Lockhart are based on real people, and are the only ones
> known to be from real life (AFAIK). And just because they're based
> on real people doesn't mean that they were only introduced for
> revenge purposes, cause that's not what I believe. They're just
> models for the "bad guys". JKR is just really, really good as
> creating these nasty villains; and those villains usually do get
> their comeuppance in the end.

Winterfell responds:
Whether or not JKR wrote characters based on real people or not, whether she had fun writing about revenge or not, my point was that she did not write about revenge solely because it was fun to do so.  I believe she wrote about revenge in part perhaps at times because it
was fun for her to do so, but primarily because it was essential to a
future plot thread, or because it developed her characters in ways
she wanted to do so. I simply did not feel that JKR was so
irresponsible a novelist as to put elements of revenge in her works
only for purely selfish and/or personal reasons or only to exact some
kind of revenge against real life people from her own past. I think
she cared too much about the story and it's inevitable outcome to do
that.  IM, her revenge issues in the books had literary purposes as
well.

Winterfell