A sandwich

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 178638

> > ***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? 
> 

Annemehr:

Why, yes.  Well, one doesn't insist on "subversive" and certainly 
not "questionable," but, yes, every sentence *should* be there for a 
purpose, and you know we are going to seek it. That's how finely 
crafted literature is written.  And if a story is not so finely 
crafted, then each sentence will be thoroughly critiqued, you can be 
sure.


Geoff:
> 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?
> 

Annemehr:

Well, that's a game we could play, certainly. The hypothetical Molly 
discussion would have definite similarities to the Kreacher one, I'd 
wager.  Maybe we'll do that after we're done picking the actual 
series apart. ;)

Geoff:

> Sometimes a cigar is just a... cigar.
>

Annemehr:

The line in question is badly placed if it's "just a cigar."  But, I 
don't agree that it is.  It's an affirmation that Harry's new 
relationship with Kreacher, begun when hiding out at 12 Grimmauld 
Place, was not just wartime pragmatism, but rather the way it's going 
to be.  Its prominence comes not only from its location in the final 
book, but by sitting atop a whole mountain of canon given in GoF, 
OoP, and DH.  It's fairly impossible to ignore.

So, it gets a thread.  As it should, IMO.

Annemehr