A sandwich
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Oct 29 20:58:23 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 178632
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@>
> wrote:
> >
> > In the insatiable desire to be provocative some have found yet another
> > way to demonize Harry; apparently even after going through the
> > tortures of the damned to save the world asking for a sandwich as a
> > reward is being unforgivably selfish. As for Kreacher, Harry was far
> > more forgiving than I would have been considering that in any legal
> > system on the planet he would have been imprisoned for being part of a
> > murder conspiracy that caused the death of Harry's godfather.
> >
> > It's good to be provocative but if you push it too far you get silly.
> >
> > Eggplant
>
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>
> ***Katie:
>
> I'm someone who is deeply disturbed by Harry's final remark regarding
> Kreacher, and I am in no way attempting to be "provocative". I was so
> shocked by that remark the first time that I read the book, that I was
> completely taken out of the story by it. The *line* is provocative, IMO.
>
>
> The problem is not that Harry is wondering about a sandwich - the
> problem is that he expects that Kreacher may bring him one.
Geoff:
Hell's bells! Do we have to seek a subversive and questionable meaning
in every sentence of the books?
Supposing Harry had wondered whether Molly Weasley or Hermione or
even... Draco(!) might bring him a sandwich in Gryffindor Tower. What
would you read into that?
Sometimes a cigar is just a... cigar.
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