Lack of re-examination SPOILERS for Corambis and Tigana

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Betsy Hp:
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But as far as Harry not re-examining so that I'd be forced to, I'm not made
squirmy about it on *my* account. It's Harry that I'm bothered about. Yes, I
*do* expect him to have a "wow I should have known" moment. Because he
gleefully watched an adult mistreat a schoolboy. Sure he had his reasons at the
time, and they may have well been valid (sometimes it's nice to watch people you
dislike get smeared). But learning that it was a DE he'd watched? That should
have caused some sort of reaction. (It certainly caused a reaction in me. *g*) <SNIP>

Alla:
It is really you! Squeeee.
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Being careful knowing that you are likely to read this book.


As I mentioned elsewhere I am reading Corambis right now, and Sarah Monette seems to provide in spades the reexamination you seem to be looking for. Only that makes me feel as if author considers **me** the reader to be an absolute idiot and incapable of making up my own mind as to what I believe to be character's motivations for doing things and how he is changing or not. I do not think it is  much of a spoiler to say that through out the book one of our protagonists goes back thinking to **all bad things or not so bad things** he had done through other three books , well, how should I put it? Many many many times. As I also mentioned elsewhere, I want to beat him with a stick. I much prefer to imagine that Harry, as much as he can be a thinker, rethought what was important because he gave up Elder wand, rather than hear him saying "I am a monster" like Felix does over and over again. Just my opinion of course.


>>Pippin:
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> Are you saying it was authorial sloppiness that Fake!Moody was an effective
teacher? Didn't Mussolini made the trains run on time? Do horrible people have
to be shown as horrible at everything they do?

Betsy Hp:
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I'd like to think that if I were standing next to Simon Wiesenthal I wouldn't
praise Hitler's building of the Autobahn. So yeah, I'd prefer to think JKR was
merely sloppy there. (And I honestly do think the moral issues I have with the
series have more to do with JKR not thinking some things through rather than
personal moral flaws on her part.)

Alla:

I agree with Pippin, I do not think it is sloppiness at all. In Tigana, Erlein whom our main good guy enslaved, literally, because he needed Erlein's help to free the country from tyrants, lets good guys have it in the best traditions of Snape. Only to me Erlein seems to have much more reason to do that and one of the things he says is that the roads are now much safer when the tyrants are in charge basically rather when native duke was in charge. And you know, he is right.  Roads **are** safer, and tyrants are still tyrants and need to be dealt with.

JMO,

Alla