It's definitely brave, but it just doesn't come across as any sort of difficult choice to me because we're talking about people whose nature is all about being brave in just that way. When they make mistakes it's usually in being too enthusiastic in that direction. So while I'm not trying to dismiss what they do--I admire their bravery and what they accomplish--it still seems like it would be harder for them to act against their nature than follow it. So if I was going to define the choices that the characters make even if the choice reflects well on them I would probably never describe it as right over easy.
Adding on because I wanted to make clear that I'm not saying I don't think they're heroic enough, if that's what it sounds like. They're fine the way they are. It just doesn't seem like that particular line of Dumbledore's applies to them in any interesting way. It's like where Card talks about what the author truly believes vs. when the author's being self-consciously didactic. That's what that lines comes across as to me. JKR no doubt believes it, but it's not the concept that's driving her heroes who are more likely to create a reality of evil where it isn't there than ignore it.
Which is why perhaps as a statement to the rest of the WW and as a foreshadowing of the way the next year they're going to deny Voldemort's return it maybe makes a little sense. But even so it doesn't really fit because it suggests having the same information Harry did etc. and besides most of those people are just there to be a problem for our heroes who never doubt the evil reality.
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Re: Choosing right over easy
Date: 2006-12-05 03:58 pm (UTC)Adding on because I wanted to make clear that I'm not saying I don't think they're heroic enough, if that's what it sounds like. They're fine the way they are. It just doesn't seem like that particular line of Dumbledore's applies to them in any interesting way. It's like where Card talks about what the author truly believes vs. when the author's being self-consciously didactic. That's what that lines comes across as to me. JKR no doubt believes it, but it's not the concept that's driving her heroes who are more likely to create a reality of evil where it isn't there than ignore it.
Which is why perhaps as a statement to the rest of the WW and as a foreshadowing of the way the next year they're going to deny Voldemort's return it maybe makes a little sense. But even so it doesn't really fit because it suggests having the same information Harry did etc. and besides most of those people are just there to be a problem for our heroes who never doubt the evil reality.