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:
>
> --- 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
> 
> 
> 
> ***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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