[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherins

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2461


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From: "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at primenet.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherins


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>

> Such a lack of curiosity almost defies belief.  We know he spends time
> looking at the photo album that Hagrid assembled for him.  Why wouldn't he
> want to read the details of what happened the night his mortal enemy,
> Voldemort, killed his parents?
>
> Could JKR really be sitting on some bombshell and expect us to take the
news
> without questioning why it was withheld for so many years?  I dunno.....


I'm reminded of GeneWilder's nightmare in Young Frankenstein  - "Destiny!
Destiny! No escaping Destiny!" - by not immediately looking up his maternal
archives HP is perhaps avoiding what is his inevitable destiny - and
besides, JKR has masterfully hooked us in as readers by leaving massive
chunks of the story's background unclear, and then only gradually revealing
it to us.

As for the details of his parents' death - who knew, save James, Lily and
Voldy? Voldy was certainly eager to give his side of the story as soon as it
became feasible.

    - CMC

    - CMC