[ SECRET POST #2185 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2185 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: the only opinion that matters

[perfidiousfate]

I actually agree with this - although I love Harry Potter in terms of world-building and the variety of characters, the moral code of it all just doesn't gel with me. The society would be incredibly flawed in the real world.

And maybe it's just me, but I don't think love = automatic goodness. So, for example, Snape loving Lily doesn't really make up for the fact that he joined the Death Eaters and would've been perfectly fine killing people if it weren't for her. But love is one of the principal themes in the book, which is why the whole moral landscape of it all is kind of skewed in my opinion.

But the House system is easy to critique because it just makes so little sense and is incredibly unhealthy. I just want to deconstruct it all the time.

Re: the only opinion that matters

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly think that there's pretty much no part of the world of Harry Potter that really hangs together on close examination, as much as I love the series. In the case of the moral code of the setting, it's partly a matter of disagreement, and partly a matter of lack of precision and the series just not quite being sure what it wants to say. Definitely, the way the series thinks about love is one element of that, and the way that love and free choice interact with each other, and the existence of the house system and having a Good and Evil house aids in that.

But I guess my point is that the house system is one of the things in the series that hangs together best and makes the most sense because it's basically taken straight from real life by way of British school stories, and all the problems with it come from other aspects of the settings.