Re: The Harry Potter Mothers
- From: Drusilla <gammanormids*erasethis*@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:32:13 -0500
Fish Eye no Miko escribió:
On Aug 21, 10:44 am, rc <rclov...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been thinking about the Harry Potter mothers.
They are a mixed group of women who personify
JKR's theme of love and loss.
Ok.
Muggleborn Lilly Potter is described as being fun, funny
and cheeky. She was good at potions and charms. She
loved her son enough to try to save him from Voldermort,
and by giving up her life, she did.
Yep.
Lilly's counterpart is Tonks. A pureblood,
No. Her dad's a Muggle-born. She's like harry, with one pure-blood
parent and one Muggle-born. So, shes a half-blood.
she too is fun, funny and apparently fiercely independent.
She defied convention to love and marry not only a man
old enough to be her father,
Close but not quite. He was 34-35 in OtP. Tonks had been an Auror for
a year, and being one requires three years' post-Hogwarts training.
So she'd've been at least 21 in OtP.
Looks like the OP is mixing Andromeda and Tonks. Andromeda, a pure-blood. defied convention and married a muggle-born. No idea how old is Ted.
but a werewolf and have a child with him. She loved
Remus Lupin enough to leave her baby with her
widowed mother, join the battle for Hogwarts, and to
die with him.
What a wonderful, loving thing for a parent to do... d-:
Never liked her, really. Well, I did but somehow, I started to dislike he.r
Thin, brunet,
I think in the books she's blonde.
Tonks? mousy-brown, I think.
middle-class Petunia Dursley wants to be the person the
Joneses keep up with. She has to have everything perfect,
her lawn, her house, and her life. This perfection masks the
secret of the death of her sister Lilly and the fact her
nephew is a wizard. She seems to be completely dominated
by her husband,
Does she?
but if her Dudly left and Vernon stayed, she would go with
Dudly. He is the most important person in her life.
True.
Contrast Petunia with tall, blond, aristocratic, Narcissa
Malfoy. <snip> She took her life in her hands twice to
protect her son. The first when she went to Snape for
help and the second when she deliberately lied to
Voldermort that Harry was dead.
I'd argue that not fighting during the second Battle of Hogwarts was
also dangerous. Had V lived, he might have punished the Malfoys for
not fighting.
She is a strong enough woman to guide her husband and
son in their relationships with Voldermort, and she helped
them survive to the end.
True, true.
Mrs. Black is a pureblood and proud of it. Her portrait screams
about mudbloods and blood traitors in her house. In life she
must have been just the same since she blasted names of
people she considered disgracing the name of Black off the
family tree,
Including her own son...
but she is mad. Kretcher describes his mistress as broken
hearted over her son Serious defection from the family and
she went mad with grief over the disappearance of her favorite
child, Regulis. In my opinion, she is a pitiful creature. All her
hopes and dreams for her children came to nothing.
Indeed. Poor Mrs. Black...
On the other hand, there is the plump, formidable, wife and
mother Molly Weasley. <snip> In her battle with Beletrix,
she didn't say you will not hurt my children again; her
statement was "you will not hurt our children again".
Ooooohh.. Good catch!
Molly was fighting for every woman's child and nothing was
going to defeat her. I keep thinking of a line from the
Bible, I think, "my strength is as the strength of ten because
my heart is pure". That's Molly.
Heh. Cool.
Andromada Tonks is the one mother we know little about.
<snip> She lost both her husband and her child to war.
She personifies the loss of all women who have lived through
war.
So does Mr. Black, in a sense. Though in her case, both her children
died fighting for the "other side".
I like these women. Jo wrote them strong and independent .
They are able to take whatever comes to them and deal with it.
They are pretty good roll models for anyone.
I'm not sure Petunia's a good role model.. She over-indulges Dudley
and even when he's a burly 15-year-old, she still uses little baby
names for him.
And while I suppose I can sympathize with Mrs. Black for her loss, her
own attitudes are largely to blame.
Although she has always had that attitude against muggle-borns, who knows if the portrait is an exaggeration of her at the time of her death, about 5 years after her sons were one in prison and the other dead: she might have gone mad.
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