Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character/Now Rowling's control

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No: HPFGUIDX 180657

> >>Pippin:
> Voldemort doesn't need to publicly kill large numbers of wizards at
> once -- that sort of crude display is for Muggles. Yes, it doesn't
> seem very scary that in the background lots of people are
> disappearing or being killed, or tortured or made into refugees,
> because it's all happening very far away from Harry. And that, if
> you think about it, is pretty scary too. And very true to life.

Betsy Hp:
<SNIP>
Honestly, I think it's pretty darn *un*realistic. If his world were
really under this sort of attack, Harry would notice. <BIG SNIP>< 
HUGE>


Alla:

Not necessarily at all. During Stalin's reign of terror millions and 
millions of people disappeared. They dissappeared in camps, they 
were tortured and killed by KGB, etc, etc, it is a very well known 
fact.

But it is ALSO a fact that plenty of people lived happily or as 
happily as it was possible under soviet regime, having no freaking 
idea that this is happening to many people. Why? Because it did not 
concern their families, their loved ones, etc. I mean, obviously 
since repressions were happening on such massive scale, LOTS of 
people knew, but LOTS did not either. I think it was very well 
portrayed.

My grandmother for example had no idea whatsoever.








> > >>Pippin:
> > I could be wrong, but it doesn't sound like you want Draco 
and     
> > Snape to be redeemed, it sounds like you want them to be co-
       
> > redeemers with Harry.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Yeah, to a certain extent I did.  I expected Harry to grow himself 
> (though I figured he had a smaller way to go than Draco and 
Snape), 
> and through his growth heal his world.  Instead, nothing changed. 
> 


Alla:

Please tell me if I am wrong, but you pretty much said yes to 
Pippin's question that you wanted Snape and Draco to be coredeemers 
with Harry, no? So that would be a fair summary to say that the 
characters you wished to take central stage together with Harry did 
not take the central stage ( although I thought Snape took it pretty 
central, maybe not as central as Harry, but of course matter of 
opinion). What does it have to do with merits of the books again?