On Jul 17, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
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Gautam Mukunda wrote:
1. A few quick thoughts on the plot
2. Some more serious thoughts on the moral messages
and ideas I think Rowling is trying to convey (and why
they make me far more impressed by her writing than I
was before reading this one)
3. A few brief thoughts on the extent to which Rowling
is engaging in - at least to a small extent - some
political allegory
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Snape is revealed.
Is he? I think Ms. Rowling *still* left enough wiggle room for
Severus not to be the bad guy. Yes, he did kill Dumbledore, but there
are signs both in that scene and in Harry's pursuit of him that
suggest there's more to it than "Snape is on the Dark Side."
Ah, but Dumbledore, in his discussion of horcruxes, makes it clear that
murder destroys the soul. This isn't a Lucasian world where a single
act of good can redeem a murder (a la Vader at the end of RotJ). And
Snape, unlike Draco, *chose* to take on the task should Malfoy prove
unable. He elected to take the oath; he wasn't under anyone's
compulsion.
I don't think there's any way to recover from that.
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Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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