[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death

[Lenore]

No: HPFGUIDX 181885


>Lee:
> > Moody explains they can't get Harry out via conventional methods
>because Thicknesse has made it illegal to connect Harry's house to the
>floo network or to Apparate out. No indication that the MoM is
>actually blocking Apparation, just that it's illegal. So hang the
>legalities and Apparate out anyway.

Lenore:
I totally agree.  They could have easily had the Seven Apparitions,
or the Fourteen Apparitions.  So what, if the Ministry knew about them?
And they could all head in different directions, so that no one really
knew where Harry was.  I admit I haven't even wanted to think very
closely about this part of the story execution, because it annoyed
me so much from the first.

Lenore:
The entire Seven Potters plan strikes me as less than brilliant,
and I personally would expect a much more effective plan from our
dear Moody, (who is one of my favorite characters and one which
I had hoped would be developed further).  Fortunately, their DE
pursuers were also lacking in efficiency and competence;
otherwise, the whole plan could have ended in a complete debacle.

(Actually, I was surprised that anyone on Moody's team showed
up alive. It looked like a doomed mission to me.)

Lenore:
OTOH, Lee's attribution did not bother me in the slightest.  I don't
understand how anyone could see anything sarcastic in it.  That
seems quite a stretch to me!  It reminded me a bit of books I've
enjoyed which have a certain oriental flavor (in the broadest sense).
I felt that Lee meant it in that gracious sense and that's how I have
always read it.

Lee:
 > P.S. I've recently had a complaint about the attribution line my
e-mail reader inserts: "_____ blessed us with this gem On...." (see
above); the impression was that it drips with sarcasm.
 >
 > Does it strike anyone else that way? It's certainly not intended
sarcastically, but if it strikes anyone else that way, I'll have to
change it.

Lenore:
It would bother me if member pressures were to cause this group
to lose any of its variety, which is truly its spice.  Surely, Lee's line
costs nothing in terms of tolerance.  We have people from all
over the world, with whatever cultural (or otherwise) variability they
share with us and, for me, that adds to the group, and is definitely
not something that needs to be policed or changed.  We've been
tolerant of far worse, have we not?.
Lenore