[HPforGrownups] PoA: Dementors and Aunt Marge

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 14669

Margaret Dean wrote:

> I think it's also instructive to note =when= Harry snaps.  He can take
> it as long as Aunt Marge confines her gibes to him personally, but
> when she starts insulting his parents it's the last straw.  (And one
> can hardly blame him.  In many societies remarks like that would be
> sufficient grounds for a challenge to a duel.  To the death.)

But the Muggle/wizard dichotomy that was proposed doesn't bear out,
because it is with a dig about his father that Snape gets a major rise
out of Harry (also in PoA). I think it's not really a parallel, so much
as clearly a major Button, that Harry will have to learn to control his
response to (or else he'll be fairly easily manipulable by someone
knowing to "diss" his parents at the right time).

--Amanda


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