[HPforGrownups] Re: Suspension of disbelief - Being dependent

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 182466

Betsy Hp:
Right. Actually, my thinking is that Voldemort should have been
beaten before Harry was born. Or before he was even a twinkle, for
that matter.

Lynda:
Ok. So some person gets an idea for a story. It involves a villain that
could have been stopped early on if someone had spoken up about his/her
tendencies, but no one did because after all people can change--that someone
who should have spoken up knows that personally having headed down the wrong
path until a personal tragedy pointed him/her back on a lifepath that kept
him/her from hurting others any longer. It also involves a prophecy that
after a certain period of time a kid will be born that will have not only
the ability but also the destiny to stop this villain. In constructing the
story, there should have been several powerful, creative and inventive
people who could have stepped in and stopped the bad guy before he/she
became powerful, but if the writer lets that happen there's no story. This
writer wants to write the story outlined above, so goes ahead and does so.

There are a lot of stories written that if the writer had followed the line
of reasoning that bad guy A should have been stopped by good guy 1 before
becoming so powerful would never have been written. There have also been,
most unfortunately, many real life incidents where if people had paid
attention bad people would have been stopped before they were. So the
argument that Voldie should have been stopped before Harry was even born is
a moot point as far as I'm concerned.

Lynda


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