As if I needed another reason for my crush on Shami Chakrabarti! I mean... isn't she marvellous?
(This was one of the disappointments of DH -- I had somehow got the idea that Rowling was aiming for a do-not-become-a-monster-in-fighting-monsters idea, with Harry learning an Awful Lesson, but... no dice. It gets brushed off as if it wasn't important, because Harry was really upset and apparently that makes it all right? Urgh.)
(And yeah - I was actually kind of vindicated by DH, because I'd spent so many years bitching about the ethical bankruptcy of the Potter books and people kept saying BUT ROWLING WILL MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IN THE END, and she, er, didn't.)
John! Yes! I thought that! But since she is Shami Chakrabarti and can do no wrong, maybe she means the sort of Bible stories that come in children's books called 'Bible stories', rather than the ones in, er, the Bible?
A people without history / Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern / Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/ On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/ History is now and England.
T. S. Eliot, 'Little Gidding'.
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As if I needed another reason for my crush on Shami Chakrabarti! I mean... isn't she marvellous?
(This was one of the disappointments of DH -- I had somehow got the idea that Rowling was aiming for a do-not-become-a-monster-in-fighting-monsters idea, with Harry learning an Awful Lesson, but... no dice. It gets brushed off as if it wasn't important, because Harry was really upset and apparently that makes it all right? Urgh.)
"There is a strong moral tale running through the books," says Chakrabarti. "But they're not Bible stories; Harry has all sorts of flaws."
Now that is a strange comment, :)
Yes! Shami Chakrabarti! Yes!
(And yeah - I was actually kind of vindicated by DH, because I'd spent so many years bitching about the ethical bankruptcy of the Potter books and people kept saying BUT ROWLING WILL MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IN THE END, and she, er, didn't.)
John! Yes! I thought that! But since she is Shami Chakrabarti and can do no wrong, maybe she means the sort of Bible stories that come in children's books called 'Bible stories', rather than the ones in, er, the Bible?
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