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Discussion Question #10
Who do you feel would have changed due to the events of the war and how? The Malfoys? Harry? McGonagall? Discuss whatever character you like.

Comments

welll....

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

the epilogue happened 19 years later. so like there's no evidence that people didn't had a hard time adjusting. if anything, Rowling cheated by skipping ahead in time, not by making a happy epilogue.

I once visited a museum where one of the guides was son of a holocaust survivor- and from the anecdotes his father adjusted fine. slowly, and not completely- but fine in the end.

(and I know it's hp is fiction- i try to think of examples parallel to real world and World War seems fitting)

Re: welll....

[freakingcrups.livejournal.com]

Oh they would have adjusted fine, but many would have changed too. You can't go through that and not change, even a little. For example, Draco nodding at Harry, that's change. In Hogwarts, Draco would never have acknowledged Harry like that.

Re: welll....

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

well of course, like I didn't meant they didn't changed but the part " There's just no way someone goes into a war like that and comes out with all their sanity in tact, despite the pretty picture JKR tried to paint in the epilogue." of the argument

what like, my argument was that going through a War doesn't mean that all involved end like total basket cases that are forever and ever broken and damaged and can't lead like- relatively normal lives. (and i give an IRL example of someone's son that said his dad was pretty normal despite everything- even if sometimes he withdraw into himself and stuff)

that's what I was arguing against, not that the characters didn't changed

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean all of them would be a basket case. My dad went through war and he isn't a basket case... but he isn't exactly how he would have been had he NOT gone through that.

The "sometimes withdrawing into himself" is completely what I was talking about. This generation of Hogwarts students (Trio Era) will have moments like that and memories that their children don't understand. There might even be a time when parents can't relate to their children because their past experience is WAR and not normal-school stuff.

Most of my irritation with JKR's pretty picture is George Weasley. That boy would have died within the year of his twin's death. You don't have brothers THAT close and have one die and the other just move on. I live with identical twins, my very own Fred and George, and they were livid and upset when they found out one twin died and the other went on to marry and have children. They can't see themselves without their other half and they ever said that if they were in that same situation, there would have been a suicide - most likely after the funeral.

*/twin rant*

Having one be a psych major -whose main focus is war vets- that lets me borrow her textbooks gives me some really epic situations to look at. After I read Deathly Hallows, I immediately did some research to see how accurate JKR's epilogue could be. Yes, sure, some of it is pretty fine and dandy. You have a lot of people there not on the front lines ... and you have a lot of parents that try their best to act normal in front of the children. I'm pretty sure that it's hard for Harry to step onto that platform right now -- that's where he went when he died. You don't get over something like that. It sticks with you. But, he went there for his children and, thus, that's the "pretty picture" we see.

(I admit, I just want some after-war angst that JKR would never put in her books because it's not kid-friendly enough.)