To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storylineWAS :Re: Dis

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Pippin wrote:

Certainly if JKR had wanted the text to make it obvious that  there
were Slytherins in the group, she could have. But that doesn't  mean
she wanted to make it crystal clear that there weren't any. She  could
have done that too, as easily as she did in describing the Room  of
Requirement or the empty Slytherin table.

What she wanted the  text to do, IMO, is be open to interpretation. If
you divide the world into  good people and Slytherins, as Harry used to
do, then you'll never conceive  of the Slytherins coming back to
fight for Hogwarts. 


Julie:
But that's not what she wanted to do with this text. She's already said so,  
in
an interview where she assumed it was obvious from the text that  the 
Slytherins
came back with Slughorn to fight. That's what she meant the text to  clearly 
imply. She wasn't intentionally leaving the text open to  interpretation.
 
I personally don't have a problem interpreting the text the way she  intended 
it--that
the Slytherins came back to fight--because that's how I'd like it to  be 
anyway. But
if JKR had accomplished what was actually her intent,  then she would have
recognized the ambiguity of her original words and rewritten them to  reflect 
that
intent. It would have been a simple enough alteration to have Harry  recognize
the Slytherin students, or one or two of them specifically, among  Slughorn's
returning group.
 
I think this was a piece of bad writing on JKR's part, but I  don't hold it 
against her :-)
 
Julie
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