Cosmic justice, prepaid debt and debt payable
This crazy little thread in HPFGU, on top of confirming my suspicion that folks there don't necessarily debate any more sensibly than those in any other forum (I mean, Dudley's "fat, ugly face"??? Come on!!!), also got me thinking about the way 'comeupance' seems to work in Rowling's universe
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True! I am also of the opinion that it's more important that a wrong is recognized is a wrong, than getting characters punished but never learning from the experience... Maybe the 7th book will work differently, in that at least the more central kid characters actually grow up and become mature beings that very few adults in Potterverse have demonstrated to be?
Do they not ever reconsider their actions from the standpoint of being humane beings?
I shudder to think the Marietta incident would not be delt with in a much, much different light in book 7. It just has to! Cho's reactions then (compassion toward her friend, horror toward Hermione's actions) was reassurance enough- at least somebody was sane!
Maybe I am doomed to disappointment, but I think one of these "good" kids needs to do something which is indicted by the text.
I hope so! After all there is just this one last book left, characters like the Dursleys Rowling might've decided to leave "unredeemed" (except for maybe Petunia, who is SuperLily's sister afer all), but some of the "good" kids- Hermione and the twins especially, IMO- would really have to atone for at least their worst actions in order to justify their positions in the series as light characters.
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