[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse/Hermione and her parents

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 188200

Kemper now:
I think we sometimes deny motives and problems where they exist
because we're attached to a world view and to challenge that world
view would require some uncomfortable yet healthy change on our part.

Why should we never tickle a sleeping dragon for this?

Lynda:

Perhaps we do. I like to use my imagination when I read, so I do not have to
have every thread neatly ended for me. I can imagine that Hermione did
indeed tell her parents she was going to take extreme measures to protect
them before doing so while my best friend says there's no way she would have
done that before hand.
I can imagine that  Professor McGonagall goes home to a spouse during school
vacations and etc. etc. etc. If I didn't use my imagination when I read, I
could just watch tv instead of reading when I'm home, but I like the freedom
of reading for that possibility of different outcomes.

Lynda


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