To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storyline/ Slytherins

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 1 03:36:22 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 185569

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Just want to comment on this point - who says that it will be 
> > important to Harry and to the story? 
> 
> Magpie:
> I'm just saying that the Slytherins are people we already know, who 
> we already saw leave etc. Where as the shopkeepers in Hogsmeade 
are, 
> by comparison, less important. Therefore, I don't see how one could 
> say that it would break the mood to mention these Slytherins who 
were 
> just featured in a tense scene and sent away, where as it does not 
> break the mood to mention shopkeepers from town. 
> 
> As I have said, I don't think there relative importance to the 
story 
> is relative to reading that sentence.

Alla:

OOOOO. You know what? I think you are right. Alla shakes her head. 
You are basically just saying that regardless of how important the 
Slytherins' return is to the story and to Harry, if their exit was 
written clearly, there is no reason to not write their return clearly.

I think I may agree, but I have to reflect some more on it. I think 
those two issues were interwined in my mind and for too long. All 
right, yes, from the story point, I totally see what you are saying, 
it will be bizarre for the author to write the point A so clearly and 
when it gets to point B, it is so ambigious.

Hm, I may just had a revelation.



Magpie:
>(However, if that side issue 
> gets brought up, yes, I would say that it's a bit odd to claim 
> shopkeepers in Hogsmeade are so much familiar and important in 
> Harry's life than the Slytherins who actually have featured far 
more 
> in his life. I suspect a quick search of HP4GU would turn up a lot 
> more for Slytherins than shopkeepers in Hogsmeade.)

Alla:

Sorry, but I do not believe that the topics that we considered 
important necessarily mean that JKR considered it important. I 
actually think shopkeepers in Hogsmead just may be more important to 
Harry in a sense that he may like them more and narrator may feel it 
is important to mention them.

Magpie:
>It basically once 
> again comes down to asking why JKR didn't write that the Slytherins 
> returned if they returned. Iow, she didn't write them returning. 
She 
> did write that shopkeepers from Hogsmeade came to Hogwarts to 
fight.  
> 
> It says the Slytherins left when they left (how important or not 
> those Slytherins are to Harry doesn't have any bearing on that). It 
> never says anything about those Slytherins returning. <SNIP>

Alla:

As I said before I do get why the ambiguity may be strange from 
narrative POV (FINALLY), but definitely find it very plausible that 
since it was not important to Harry he would not mention it.

JMO,

Alla





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