Different interpretations WAS: Draco and Intent

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jkoney:
The problem with your point is even if it is realized in the book, spelled out,
spoken plainly, etc. you still have people stating that it isn't true. So it
doesn't seem to matter how clear the author is, people are still going to
"analyze" the story with their own agendas. Therefore the author is never going
to be able to make their intentions known.

Alla:

Let me ask you this then. So how do you imagine discussion about the story, about this story or any story?

Is your idea of the discussion is to argue this is what author meant to say and as long as we are clear on what author meant to say discussion should end?

No seriously, is it what you would have liked to see?

If this is it, where is the fun of it? Where is the debate? Where are so many different interpretations that we can fight over, or just discuss?


jkoney:
Or we could ask the author if she intended life at the Dursley's to be good
coming out of evil or any of your other points. That we we would know for sure
what she was trying to do.

Alla:

So if she says that yes, that's what she intended to show, then we are done?

And if she says that she intended for Dursleys to be good out of evil, the reader who thinks that she intended to show how easy it is to abuse a  child is just wrong?

jkoney"
Why do we have to break it down to look for irony, ambiguity, etc? You are now
taking pieces of the story and trying to analyze them. This isn't some pathogen
we are trying to isolate. Take the humor out of the story by itself and you
won't have a complete picture of what is happening or why it occurred.

Alla:

We do not have to lol, but to me breaking the book apart is a lot of fun.

And I am pretty sure that she did not mean that we should take those things OUT of the story. I think she meant we should analyze them within the story, if we want to of course.

Jkoney:
I think JKR gave her readers too much credit in assuming that they would
understand the concept of a boarding school and all the rules that go along with
it: dress codes, meal times, remaining on school property, curfews, parental
visitation, etc. Then again, I'm glad she didn't spell it all out because I
wouldn't have gotten through the first book.

Alla:

I am glad that she did not spell it out either, that leads me to believe that she may have decided that she would leave things ambiguous enough in some places to let her readers imagination imagine different things and that would make story even richer in their minds.

JMO,

Alla