[the_old_crowd] The theme, was Re: Ginny hexes / kinds of bigotry /etc

[silmariel]

> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...>
> wrote:
> >
> > We hear only a passing reference to SPEW in Book Six, so I don't
> > see how it's less emphasized than werewolf oppression, which
> > Lupin gives as the reason Grayback is able to recruit support,
> > and that Lupin has to keep his association with wizards secret.
>

Nora:
> Yes, but it hasn't been nearly as strong a theme throughout the
> books.  We get the setup for the house-elf situation with Dobby in
> CoS, we get more revelations about the system in GoF with Hermione's
> opening crusade, we have Kreacher at the middle of a plot, we have
> Dumbledore making explicit references to the destruction of a false
> representation of wizardly comradery with house-elves, and we have
> the house-elves as significant players in the plot several times.
>
> I don't see that much evidence pointing to werewolf oppression, which
> shows up first in PoA and does raise its head at least a little many
> times that Lupin is mentioned.  But his page time from PoA on has
> been pretty minimal.  I know it's supposed to be the grand motivating
> issue for Lupin's extreme eeeevil, and if that happens (if) maybe it
> will make more sense in retrospect.  Not betting on it.

I may see it as a strong point because I don't separate SPEW screen time from 
werewolf screen time, and I add it to the giants', the centaurs', the 
goblins' and the vampires. The fountain at the MoM links Wizards and other 
species in general, IMO. 

Taken together, they make a strong presence, I think is quite impossible to 
give each one of those groups the lenght they deserve and maintain a readable 
series of novels, but making short trips to each one when it is not 
unplot-wise keeps the theme fairly well.

I didn't like Gwap, as many in the fandom, but that's one of the things I 
wouldn't change in the book, I'm with Pippin that the whole situation the 
giants had been trown in would make a bunch of humans (or unicorns) go the 
same way.

Silmariel