Dark Book, was Re: Dark Magic (+ a little Marietta)/Karma and the Twins

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 176963

> lizzyben:
> 
> Yes. That moment is the moment when Hogwarts almost descends into mob
> violence & massacre. And no one, including the author, seems to
> realize it. I honestly think we are supposed to cheer there. 

Pippin:
::forehead slap:: 
That's the moment when Hogwarts nearly crumbles from within,
just as the Hat predicted it might. It's the moment when Hogwarts,
almost, but doesn't quite, die to thunderous applause. And
you think JKR doesn't know???

Remember how she had Harry learn to resist the
Imperius curse? She put it on him, then challenged him to
fight it. Sure she's setting us up to cheer, she's telling us
to jump on the desk, you might say,  but, IMO,
she *wants* us to think for ourselves. The epilogue frankly
demands it. 

Think for yourself, and you start seeing of course there's no
difference  between anti-Slytherin bias and scapegoating and anti-
Muggle bias and scapegoating. How could there be? Is there
one kind of psychology for hating Slytherins on sight and another 
kind for hating Muggles? 

Did we ever meet any Muggles that we liked? Weren't the Dursleys bad 
and the others purely clueless? The Grangers seemed all right
at first, but then they wouldn't let Hermione fix her teeth.
The Muggle prime minister was made to be such a figure of 
fun that JKR didn't dare read that chapter out loud after the 
7/7 attacks.

 And look what Hermione did to hide her parents..did she not 
violate wizarding law, proving that Muggleborns
are untrustworthy just  as Salazar Slytherin feared? So does that
prove Rowling wants us to hate Muggles and think Muggleborns
can't be trusted? I don't think so.

It's all about thinking for yourself, IMO.

Harry doesn't  deploy McGonagall's rules of engagement against 
Draco.  He prefers Dumbledore's. Not that facing fiendfyre together 
was going to make Draco and Harry  friends. They'd grown too old 
for that,  and they'd both learned that uniting people around
fear of a common enemy is Voldemort's job. 

But that means the efforts we did see Harry  and Draco making
towards overcoming their respective biases were honest ones, IMO.

Of course, Harry never  got over  it completely -- just because
you'd never use an ethnic slur doesn't mean that your
prejudices don't run as  deeply as another person's. 

You don't have to think what happened to Montague was funny,
even if Harry never gets around to thinking that himself. 
You might notice that while we didn't actually see young Snape
inventing  nastier magic over time,  the Twins definitely did.

You might even see that the manner of Snape's death, which like
Dumbledore's involves both blood and poison, could have
been chosen for its poetry...

If you prick us, do we not bleed?...if you poison us do we not die?



Pippin