CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 185040

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Marianne
> 
> I talked to a couple of people that said JKR took the easy way out
> and not killed off Harry in the end. One man actually told me he
> thought JKR was a coward for not killing Harry.
> 
> However, for me it couldn't end in his death. I guess I'm a sucker
> for a happy ending.
> 
> Potioncat:
> I can understand the other deaths in the series, even if I don't 
like 
> them, but I don't think killing off Harry would have been fitting 
> ending for the series. Here's a JKR interview that explains her 
> reasoning in keeping Harry alive. You can find the rest of her 
> thoughts at the link.
> 
> http://harryahistory.com/2008/10/on-harrys-survival.html
> 
> JKR: In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. 
For 
> sure, I knew that all along. felt that the books' overriding 
message 
> was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model 
with 
> Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked 
to 
> go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and care for a 
> family, be a father - particularly be a father - [it is] a 
difficult 
> job, in troubled times. 
> 
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185029
> 
> > zanooda, who always thought that Eggplant was a "he"
> 
> Eggplant:
> I thought I cleared up that confusion in a previous post when I told
> the world that my real first name is "Pat".
> 
> Potioncat:
> Oh, eggplant, you have a wicked sense of humor!
> 
>  At least in the US, the name Pat is as likely to be male as female.
>
 Kamion's remark:

My model with 
quote JKR: Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and 
are asked to  go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and 
care for a family, be a father - particularly be a father - [it is] a 
difficult.

Nice Jo, when are you going to write THAT book? It could be very 
interesting to read your version of that process, that hunderds of 
fanwriters of variated plumage have touched in also so many 
variations.
Or do you want us to believe that process has been covered by " 19 
Years later"? I don't know who she is trying to fool, but I don't buy 
it. This whole veteranpart is an intervieuw JKR beter not had let go 
public, because it is saying: " I wanted to make a painting all in 
green." while presenting a painting in red with no green at all.

When she had said in the intervieuw: " I wanted Harry's deepest wish 
as seen in the Mirror of Erised come true, which is to have a family 
of his own." I would not have such trouble with this grandeurlike 
statements about veterans. 
After the battle is done there is just a huge gap and a glimpse of 
Joe Average bringing his kid to school, nothing more nothing less and 
it has a certain charme. Don't make it look like being more 
interesting and deep then it is, because it is far from deep. It is 
even pretty shallow.
I wonder if she even really took a deeper look into the process real 
veterans go through, did she had personal experience with veterans 
coming from a war? When starting Harry Potter it was about 10 years 
after the Falkland War of 1982, time enough to have things settle 
down and the trauma's start emerging. The BBC made some drama about 
it in those days. 
Was that her source, her motivation, her experience?
I haven't seen any of it in any biop so far, so her veterantheme is 
pretty much abstract and very badly executed, or better not at all.