Re: What Leia said in RotJ

SpammersDie wrote:
I agree with the possibility of the Force granting Leia some ability to
sense what her mother was like, but the idea she saw images or "home movies" of her mother is very laughable. I doubt anyone would want Leia or anyone else for that matter, to know who her mother and more importantly, her father was. I'm sure the secret of her origins was well kept when she was young, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Organa's themselves didn't know who the child's parents where.

I assume you meant "Mrs. Organa didn't know" as it's inconceivable given what saw in ROTS that Senator Organa is in the dark as where the kid came from.

And I'm pretty sure that Mrs. Organa received the memo that at least, Leia is potentially powerful with the Force and that fact needs to be kept hidden from the Chancellor and his minions. When little Leia starts bringing home the podracer medals and the kids bullying her at school start complaining about suddenly being short of breath and feeling a pain around their throat, it's important that Mrs. Organa understand why that's happening and how to make sure Leia learns that's not appropriate behavior without letting on exactly what's going on.



I doubt Leia would have been inadvertently choking kids because the Force wasn't something people just used without conscious effort. And a princess certainly wouldn't have been involved in such backwater events as podracing. Luke didn't know what the hell the Force was and didn't have any revelation when he did find out what it was. I don't remember "Oh, so THAT'S why I keep picking things up with my mind and hurtling them across the room," comments from Luke when he DID find out what the Force was. The only reason Beru and Owen knew what Luke was to become is because they had actually met Anakin and Obi-Wan was essentially their neighbor. The way the story is laid out, Leia was to be in the spotlight, she was a princess and all, without anyone having the slightest idea her origins where anything but what they appeared to be on the surface.

I'm sure the Organa's did know something about where Leia came from, I just find it strange they would be filled in on the entire story. Ignorance, after all, is bliss.
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