Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 192007

There are a number of things that I really wish that JKR had included in 
the Harry Potter novels which, for whatever reason, she didn't. I'll 
mention a couple, and, more importantly, why I think that it was a mistake.

For example, the lack of "Good Slytherins", at least among the students. 
The Sorting Hat kept talking about unity between the houses, but the 
Slytherin students were, at best, neutral, and, at worst, on the side of 
Morty. Would it have been too much to have a Slytherin on the side of 
Morty's opponents, possibly explaining about his joining the other 
Slytherins in tormenting Harry: "That was just a game. This is for 
real." As it is, JKR sends mixed messages.

I also would have liked to have seen Unforgivable Curses be more than 
the political slogan it seems to be. It has been discussed here that 
there might be something more to the Unforgivable Curses than the name 
(after all, a number of people use them with no consequence, notably 
Harry himself). To give a reasonable example, they might have been 
considered Unforgivable (with a capital "U") not because of what it does 
to others, but what it does to the caster. The level of desire required 
to want to cause someone pain, control them, or cause them to die, 
unless for pure motives with a voluntary subject, should have been shown 
to damage the psyche of the caster; not as much as creating a horcrux, 
perhaps, but creating a corruption which, once present, cannot be 
removed. It made Harry a bit too much of a Christlike figure to not have 
him suffer the consequences of what he had to do in order to defeat 
Morty; the consequences were reserved for the more disposable 
characters. Even if it was just the regret that often hits people who 
peak too early, the ending was a bit too happy for my own taste.

     Bart