She just boggles me every time she opens her mouth. Why can't she just stop? I was pleased to see she finally admitted she hasn't re-read her own books, though. That explains a great deal.
Her understanding of people is SO bleak (particularly, as has been said, in a book that's supposedly about choice) You're born good or evil, and that's it. You could be seduced away from it, but basically that's not your fault, because you're still innately good. (I might have a larger problem with this, not only because it's not what I believe she wrote, but because I have a hard time believing in 'innately good' and 'innately' bad. And I'm a Christian, and this reflects my beliefs, but not the tripped-out Calvinist type of Christianity JKR seems to espouse)
Her view of love is just terrifying, as well. It's some outside (chemical?) force that you have no control over and that completely takes over your will and thoughts and overrides any morality you might have grown up with? Bloody hell. No wonder it's the most powerful force in her world. But when she said that, I always assumed she thought it was a good force, basically, not an amoral all-powerful all-consuming force that robbed you of your individuality completely.
I always read DD's relationship with Grindlewald as that sort of incredibly intense teenage crush, where you can't really tell if you want to be with someone or just be them. So while I could read it as 'gay DD', I didn't think that was necessarily the case.
And I really, really, don't see how the motivation for one of the most important characters in the series, a motivation that shaped the wizarding world (all those who died under Grindlewald, anyone?) for at least 50 years, wasn't relevant to the story? WTF JKR?
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Date: 2008-03-10 12:15 pm (UTC)Her understanding of people is SO bleak (particularly, as has been said, in a book that's supposedly about choice) You're born good or evil, and that's it. You could be seduced away from it, but basically that's not your fault, because you're still innately good. (I might have a larger problem with this, not only because it's not what I believe she wrote, but because I have a hard time believing in 'innately good' and 'innately' bad. And I'm a Christian, and this reflects my beliefs, but not the tripped-out Calvinist type of Christianity JKR seems to espouse)
Her view of love is just terrifying, as well. It's some outside (chemical?) force that you have no control over and that completely takes over your will and thoughts and overrides any morality you might have grown up with? Bloody hell. No wonder it's the most powerful force in her world. But when she said that, I always assumed she thought it was a good force, basically, not an amoral all-powerful all-consuming force that robbed you of your individuality completely.
I always read DD's relationship with Grindlewald as that sort of incredibly intense teenage crush, where you can't really tell if you want to be with someone or just be them. So while I could read it as 'gay DD', I didn't think that was necessarily the case.
And I really, really, don't see how the motivation for one of the most important characters in the series, a motivation that shaped the wizarding world (all those who died under Grindlewald, anyone?) for at least 50 years, wasn't relevant to the story? WTF JKR?