Instead of making my clever-clogs Barney quip I should have responded to the first part of your comment:
Meaning (I think) to show that sometimes it's hard to define what is evil and what is good.
Well, no, meaning something rather different: Go from defining and judging the characters in the story in terms of good and evil, to acknowledging and understanding them for themselves - from morality to humanity.
This is a massive shift in perspective.
One does still have to bear in mind the things I mentioned in a comment somewhere below, the most important of which is probably the comedy in the story. HP is not always serious, and we should never be afraid to laugh!
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Date: 2008-07-06 11:37 pm (UTC)Meaning (I think) to show that sometimes it's hard to define what is evil and what is good.
Well, no, meaning something rather different: Go from defining and judging the characters in the story in terms of good and evil, to acknowledging and understanding them for themselves - from morality to humanity.
This is a massive shift in perspective.
One does still have to bear in mind the things I mentioned in a comment somewhere below, the most important of which is probably the comedy in the story. HP is not always serious, and we should never be afraid to laugh!