After reading one stupid comment too many...

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I know I have read an essay that made the point that Mrs.Rowling had built up to Ginny-Harry much better than a lot of Philistines like to pretend. Can someone point me to it? Right here and now, I am not really in the mood to go and write one for myself, and I would like to have something to respond if I ever hear that ignorant opinion again.

On the other hand, does anyone doubt that the sudden apparition of Remus-Tonks in HBP is in the nature of a JKR rapsberry at certain fannish obsessions - just as, in my view, her sudden and incomprehensible invention of a black Blaise Zabini?

Lucius Malfoy is the most overrated villain on the planet. He is unintelligent, arrogant and whiny.

Finally, the twits who insist that Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard are the same idiots who are currently pretending that Israel could defend itself from Hezbollah without destroying bridges or killing people. It's called a war, dolts.

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[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

I would much rather die, though it would be hard as I don't consider suicide a viable option. I don't know what I'd do if I were sentenced to a Dementor's kiss. To me, that is a fate worse then death and cruel beyond anything anyone deserves. But I'm speaking form me own religious beliefs here.

Anyway, so are you saying you think they want to take the DE's alive so they suffer as much as possible?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I am not sure. We know that there is such a thing as coming out of Azkaban, that it is not a life sentence for every crime - and even people like Karkaroff who got long or life sentences can have them reduced by collaborating - and that the Kiss is only administered on exceptional occasions. But it is an appalling punishment. I guess the last word has to be with Sirius, who had thirteen years of experience of it, and who still praised Moody for bringing people in alive for Azkaban rather than killing them on the spot.