[the_old_crowd] Re: Genre WAS: That Bloody Man Again

[silmariel]

Nora:
> Actually, there's a question for the list as a whole: can you take the
> power of love and Harry's pure heart with a completely straight face?  

I can't. Actually reading the power of love so clearly stated as an axiom 
ended my suspension of disbelief, so I put it in the 'whatever' list and 
tried to ignore it anytime it surfaced (cheap trick, but it ended working). 
That kind of things do not bother me in books more clearly cutted into 
Good/Light/Order and Bad/Darkness/Chaos, more unrealistic scenarios, or when 
it is stated from the beginning of the series.

Harry's pure heart is something that made me laugh <not trying to offend 
anyone but I considered it comic>, I would have bought a 'because you are a 
good person' (still debatable, but I think I'd side Harry), but pureness of 
heart ... not really. I'm not saying I can't find pure of heart heroes nice, 
only that I can't see Harry as an example of one.

> Does it do anything to the rest of the series thematically or otherwise
> if you don't?

> -Nora buys into it for the purpose of reading, but finds herself
> increasingly aware of having to purposefully do it

That's my problem, if I try to buy it I discover myself questioning Harry's 
actions and reasoning in terms of his pure heart instead of doing it in terms 
of being Harry, so the scenes I would've found natural in Harry, I had to 
force myself into buying they came from a pure heart, and I was aware of it.

If I don't try to buy it, it doesn't change the series thematically, I still 
see people most of the time, two sides, lots of bias, misunderstandments and 
double moral, still the hero, ergo the good (but not Good) ones, saving the 
day at the end of the series, well, the books don't change if I ignore love 
and Harry's heart as DD's ramblings but do if I buy it.

Silmariel