[HPforGrownups] Re: One Big, Happy Weasley Family

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 10988



moongirlk at yahoo.com wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...>
> wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > moongirlk at y... wrote:
> >
> > Even though this was addressed to Cassie's post, I'll respond
> quickly
> > since I know I posted along the same lines --
> >
> > > Then why make the comparison?  I'm not asking for the natural
> laws of
> > > the universe to be broken, just for the poor kid to get a loving,
> > > supportive, happy place to be after it's all over.  Why is that
> so bad?
> >
> > It's not bad to wish Harry will have a happy supportive family
> someday.
> > But, I don't think One Big Happy Weasley Family is the *only* way
> for that
> > to happen.  Why *couldn't* he be happy with Hermione?
>
> He probably could.  I'm not saying he can't, or that the happy family
> idea is the only way, I'm just responding to the way some people
> react to the idea.

Here's my take on the One Big Happy Weasley Family - I go along with those
who believe that Harry *is* already part of the family, even if it's not by
marriage or blood - and here's why I feel this way. From the time I started
junior high school (at 11) until my sister graduated college, at various
times, each of us had close friends who had family difficulties living with
us - either over the weekends (3 nights) during the school week, or pretty
much full time. In fact, my sister's best friend from junior high moved in
with my family when they were in 10th grade, and since the late 80's, I have
called him "my brother" - and he is, in every way that counts.
And if I was a weasley, and harry was my friend, I would do the exact same
thing -we've even seen molly basically ask harry to stay for the whole
summer, and it's only on Dumbledore's orders that he doesn't go with them
straight from King's Cross. So to her mind (and mine) he *is* part of the
One Big Happy Weasley Family, regardless of whether he marries her daughter
(or, for you slashers out there, whether he marries her son...)