The Overarching message - Caning + Mind Reading, of sorts

[sigurd at eclipse.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 191700

Dear Potioncat.

Ok, if it's real next time it's cold and rainy cast an "impervious" spell over yourself (or whatever Hermione used to water-proof Harry's glasses) and leave the umbrella home and go in flip-flops.

All of these things you name, "Never-Never-Land", "Oz" etc, are fictional constructs and have no hard reality. Their authors can spin what fables and fairy-tales they wish. But the world we live in does have reality and in fact is the only reality that the hypothetical fantasy worlds can exist in. That is through enactment of principles from that hypothetical construct here.

You may not like people like me analysing things and bringing up inconvenient and uncomfortable realities but if you don't bring these things up the real world will flatten you when you attempt to apply some things from fantasy world to here (like the pneumonia you will get from the example above) or worse.

Worse, if you're not going to do this analysis then all fiction, J.K. Rowling included, becomes merely a little private cell we can retreat to and live with our fantasies, and as each interpretation of Rowling will be completely subjective, no one can say anything to anyone else, and it becomes merely a means for daydreaming.
And in fact, as no one can talk to anyone else lest it jar ones tender sensibilities, this community is completely superfluous.

Otto