Eneasz Brodsky

They make a wish.

The wish is granted.

But then it turns out that was not what they wanted was not actually what he needed.

So the consequences of getting that wish fulfilled are horrible.

And then most of the rest of the plot is dealing with the consequences of that bad wish and trying to backtrack and getting what you actually need instead of what you want.

And it turns out what you needed was around you all along.

you know, the real friends were the, or the real treasure was the friends we made along the way, that kind of thing.

Standard Disney plot.

Right?

Because what he says, the wish that was granted is in chapter one, when he says it's foreshadowed, the line he quotes is, Harry closed his eyes briefly, hopeless.

Both his parents were just hopeless.

And then in chapter six, when it was the conflict is established, the plot is established.

What he quotes is, I realized that everyone who was supposed to protect me was actually crazy and that they wouldn't listen to me no matter how much I begged them and that I couldn't ever rely on them to get anything right.

Sometimes I feel like they're the children, children who won't listen and have absolute authority over my whole existence.

And I think this is the major rationalist emotion, the idea that you can't rely on anybody else.

The world was supposed to be here as a sane thing with structure to help humans work together.

But there's no one.

They're crazy.

They believe in gods and ghosts and all this crazy shit.

You can't rely on anything.