Also, if you value mercy in a story, then you can show growth or even forgiveness in the characters. The storyline doesn't have to be so much about good guys vs bad guys, or victims and perpetrators. There's something much more interesting and dynamic, if slightly less crisp, about allowing for that evolution in character relationships and arcs.
It's just....it would have made a more interesting story if, say, Harry had learned to have sympathy for the difficult decisions Dumbledore, Snape, or other characters were forced to make. Or if he had been forced to make some difficult decisions himself.
Then everything becomes more interesting, not just morally, but narratively as well. But every time one reads her interviews, it's like she wants the story to be as unambiguous and uninteresting as possible - perhaps she just wants to make the morals starker, but to a lot of people I think it just becomes vapid, or at least overly simple.
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re: mercy
Date: 2016-12-05 03:31 am (UTC)It's just....it would have made a more interesting story if, say, Harry had learned to have sympathy for the difficult decisions Dumbledore, Snape, or other characters were forced to make. Or if he had been forced to make some difficult decisions himself.
Then everything becomes more interesting, not just morally, but narratively as well. But every time one reads her interviews, it's like she wants the story to be as unambiguous and uninteresting as possible - perhaps she just wants to make the morals starker, but to a lot of people I think it just becomes vapid, or at least overly simple.