And my teenage Mary Sue LOTR fantasies—quite properly never written—were powered partly by a desire to prove that a Wizard or person of power need not be male.
Are you familiar with Pratchett's talk entitled Why Gandalf Never Married? (He gave the talk in 1985 when he was working on Equal Rites. Of course he went on to write witches that were more sympathetic and more *helpful* than his wizards. Then again, in his last few books Ridcully and some of the other wizards have become somewhat useful.)
And I totally agree with you that what keeps me in some parts of HP-fandom is the need to figure out where exactly things got broken (in wizarding culture and politics in general, Dumbledore's convoluted plans, the workings of Hogwarts, as well as the paths some of the supposed good guys have taken) and what can possibly be done about this broken world.
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Re: The Broken World
Date: 2009-08-25 06:11 am (UTC)Are you familiar with Pratchett's talk entitled Why Gandalf Never Married? (He gave the talk in 1985 when he was working on Equal Rites. Of course he went on to write witches that were more sympathetic and more *helpful* than his wizards. Then again, in his last few books Ridcully and some of the other wizards have become somewhat useful.)
And I totally agree with you that what keeps me in some parts of HP-fandom is the need to figure out where exactly things got broken (in wizarding culture and politics in general, Dumbledore's convoluted plans, the workings of Hogwarts, as well as the paths some of the supposed good guys have taken) and what can possibly be done about this broken world.