[HPforGrownups] re: 3 little things / father figures / Slytherin

[Jenserai Bariman]

No: HPFGUIDX 38111

Amanda wrote:
>Jens said
>
><a wonderful tie-in with Snape's fear of harm happening to Harry (for
>whatever reason) with the father figure theory, which I espouse and helped
>start, so I love her forever>
>

Umm, actaully, I didn't write that...

>She also said, about Draco impersonating the dementor at the match:
>
> > Children do things without thinking of the consequences. I've done 
>things
> > like that (ok, it usually involved danger to myself rather than
>others...).
> > It is entirely possible that it simply didn't occur to Draco that Harry
> > might actually fall.
>
>With all due respect--yeah, right. Like it is possible that it simply 
>didn't
>occur to young Sirius that Transformed!Lupin might not seriously injure or
>kill Snape. Hah.
>
>--Amanda, waiting for the Sirius lovers to come after her for a 
>Sirius/Draco
>parallel
>

Okay, I obviously didn't word that correctly. I'm still not really sure how 
to illustrate the idea, but I'll give it another shot. There's a certain 
state of mind that I think people occaionally get into. The "it seemed like 
a good idea at the time" state of mind where rational thought processes are 
over-ridden for whatever reason and they do entirly stupid things, not 
realizing until later why it was a Very Bad Idea. When I said it was 
"possible that it simply didn't occur to Draco that Harry might actually 
fall", I might have to explained more as short term denial. He sort of 
not-quite-consiously chose not to think about it.

And don't say that sort of thing doesn't happen, I know from personal 
experiance that it does. I have a neighbor about my age and we used to beat 
eachother up regularly. Of course, we're great friends now...

-Jens


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