Thank you! Those are exactly my thoughts too, though you can actually put them into words better than I can :)
"...I think can be legitimately read into the books is that violence, revenge, and "dirty" fighting are perfectly acceptable, as long as they're done by people who are generally on the right side of a moral-based conflict or believe the right things."
One of the many reasons why HBP really irked me to no possible ends, I'm afraid. I've never been a great fan of the Slytherins, but it struck me how godawful some of the Gryffindors are in their behaviour that if they were in Slytherin they'd be ZOMG!TehEvol!1!! Yet it's perfectly okay if Gryffindors are out hexing people for little to no reason and it's credited as "they asked for it/they had it coming/good riddance kthnxbai".
I used to love the books, devoured them even but HBP really changed that, perhaps even as early as OotP. Like you I feel that these are a writer's faults, not the person. And even then, I don't get JKR at all and now I feel that I must avoid her comments as of late because it just makes me angry and I still need to read Book 7 before I ignore her altogether :P
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"...I think can be legitimately read into the books is that violence, revenge, and "dirty" fighting are perfectly acceptable, as long as they're done by people who are generally on the right side of a moral-based conflict or believe the right things."
One of the many reasons why HBP really irked me to no possible ends, I'm afraid. I've never been a great fan of the Slytherins, but it struck me how godawful some of the Gryffindors are in their behaviour that if they were in Slytherin they'd be ZOMG!TehEvol!1!! Yet it's perfectly okay if Gryffindors are out hexing people for little to no reason and it's credited as "they asked for it/they had it coming/good riddance kthnxbai".
I used to love the books, devoured them even but HBP really changed that, perhaps even as early as OotP. Like you I feel that these are a writer's faults, not the person. And even then, I don't get JKR at all and now I feel that I must avoid her comments as of late because it just makes me angry and I still need to read Book 7 before I ignore her altogether :P