CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker

[Jayne]

No: HPFGUIDX 183673

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" 
<montavilla47 at ...> wrote:
>

> > 
 
> I'll throw another perspective into the pot, then.  When I read 
this 
> scene, it reminded me very much of a similar scene from another 
> book.
> 
> It's the second book from the Lymond Chronicles, written by
> Dorothy Dunnett.  Lymond is a sort-of-a ne'er do well (except
> he's always doing well) Scottish lord in the sixteenth century.  At 
> the end of Queensplay, a character that he found too pathetic to
> deal with dies--and he finds the body in a suitably horrid, dramatic
> way.  
> 
> Whereupon he (and a friend who happens to be there) dig the grave
> by hand.  Not that he'd use magic, because it's historical fiction
> and not fantasy.  But they do it by hand and it takes a long time.
> It's the emotional climax of the book.  It's also the point in the 
> series when Lymond (who spent most of the book in this frenzy
> of debauchery) realizes that he needs to stop evading responsibility
> and start doing something with his life.
> 
> It strikes me that this is what JKR may be heading towards with the
> scene.  That this is the moment when Harry gets his head 
> together and stops flailing around.  And it's because he finally 
gets
> that people are dying--and there *is* something he can do about
> it.
>

Yes that is a good conection. My two favourite authors writing about 
basically the same thing, Choice, but in different ways.
Harry I think matures a lot in this scene and so does Francis in QP  

Jayne
A Dorothy Dunnett fan and Of course JKR