I am an adult and am capable of discerning when I am being presented with a pack of lies - such as is presented in HP.
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It’s fiction, PM. By definition, fiction is not a representation of actual events, so if one were inclined, one could say all fictionis a pack of lies.
It would be silly, but not entirely incorrect.
“It’s fiction, PM. By definition, fiction is not a representation of actual events, so if one were inclined, one could say all fictionis a pack of lies.”
Example: A “fiction” that represents Jesus as not dying on the cross is not merely a morally neutral fiction - but a lie.
It would be a fiction used as a cover for an attempt to deceive.
If you ever read L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, etc.), lots of the older people portrayed thought that very thing. It actually has been a widespread attitude. I think the same attitude is shown in some Louisa May Alcott characters, but those who hold that view are clearly narrow-minded and ill-educated.