[HPforGrownups] Re: Class origins

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 29406

Calypso8604 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/19/01 6:45:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Zarleycat at aol.com writes:
> 
> > On the other hand, maybe
> > his family never wanted to deal with having a werewolf as a son, so
> > once they got him educated at Hogwarts, they felt their parental
> > responsibilities ended and then they disowned him.
> 
> Actually, I believe Remus' parents were good, loving parents that accepted
> the werewolf son. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Remus told Harry that his parents
> were extremely supportiveand helped him out a lot after he recieved his bite.

And if medical costs (or the equivalent) in the wizarding world
are anything like they are in ours, it's pretty easy to guess
where the family money went -- paying for years and years of
unsuccessful (perhaps experimental) treatments for lycanthropy.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>