'Clue to his vulnerability' (Coming to a conclusion )

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

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> What I'm getting at is that there seems to be a conflict between 
> much well-written gritty reality in the stories, and the alleged 
> soppy fairy tale morality underpinning it. 'A quest, a quest..' 
> said Sir Cadogan, before tripping over and failing to pull his 
> sword out of the ground. Very Monty Python, very JKR, very mordant 
> humour - and then we are supposed to switch tone and gear and 
> believe in a gallant, plucky little lad with his heart full of 
> goodness overcoming the biggest baddie of all time. Aaah, sweet...

Maybe it's just me, but I've always seen a fairly strong streak of 
(dare I say it?) sentimentality running through the books.  Power of 
love, power of friendship, who cares about books when you have that 
kind of stuff, loyalty and devotion--the whole nine yards.  It's an 
individual reading choice which of these two aspects the reader wants 
to emphasize, but the reader who doesn't follow the author's balance 
is probably going to end up a little lost. 

And if you pay attention to interviews (I do) and don't think she's 
grossly lying to us (I don't), she's really very interested in us-the-
readers realizing her utter sincerity and picking up on it.  I think 
of two things from the last interview.  One is her interest in 
whether or not people took Sirius' declaration in the Shrieking Shack 
as sincere (and let's not segue off on that part of the sentence), 
because she definitely meant it as such.  The other is her discussion 
of Ginny as the ideal girl for Harry, also done with no caveats or 
anything of the like.

She doesn't seem inclined to abandon Harry as The Hero of her story, 
although who knows what complications we'll see.  But is that really 
a shock?

-Nora notes that complexity created by lack of information can go 
away awfully fast, too