late night moral relativism

Last night, venusinchains (I think it was her) gave me a link to an article about the seventh HP books (warning: If you click, there ARE spoilers).

Anyway, I showed this link to my sister, who is a bigger HP fan than I am, to see what she thought. I rather agreed with it, that Harry’s NOT the one with the moral struggle and I too wondered if he ought to be the center focus of the story (at least of the six books I’ve read thus far). She disagreed, saying that it is important for a story to have a moral, but that it doesn’t have to be the main character who undergoes a change or exemplifies/experiences said moral. My rebuttal was, why should we care the most about someone who isn’t having to make the Big Decisions, as the center of a story? Her answer was to compare Harry to Jesus Christ and say for each, their function was not in what happened to they themselves so much as the effect they had on the characters/people around them and how they changed them (for Harry, she argued, this would be on Ron, Hermione, Neville, et. al. – they would not be the characters they are by the 7th book if not for Harry’s influence).

So, I thought I’d share the link with others, is all. :-D