[HPforGrownups] Re: Foe Glass/ Voldie's intent

[Iris FT]

No: HPFGUIDX 46423


 
 Richelle Votaw <rvotaw at i-55.com> wrote:
"Iris writes:

> they avoid calling his name.They don't face their fear. Voldemort's power
is in the > fear he's able to generate.Did Harry survive only because, as a
baby, he didn't
> know who Voldemort was, and then didn't fear him?

I've always wondered about that. <warning, movie references coming up!>
Particularly the scene in TMTSNBN (the first one!) where JKR wrote the scene
at the Potter's house specifically for the movie.  I originally doubted that
it was written by her, but after they keep saying it over and over I'm
starting to believe them.  If it wasn't she'd surely have denied it by now.
Anyway, baby Harry is staring dead on at Voldemort.  Why?  This baby's
parents were just killed, I'll admit a 15 month old can't really know what's
going on, but still he would know something were wrong if his mother just
screamed and collapsed in front of him.  With green light and all.  But he's
just staring at him.  Almost an "I dare you to try it" stare.  I'll admit
right off, it could just be a matter of them not wanting a screaming baby on
a "children's" movie.  But still, it always seemed odd.  And there's nothing
in the books to compare it to.

Richelle"

Iris again:

When I wrote my post, I wasn't thinking in the movie, I even didn't know the scene had been writen by JKR herself. I was only thinking in baby behaviour. Let's take examples in our homes: how many babies have accidents with electricity or fire each year? They played with them, they didn't fear them because they just ignored they could be dangerous. They have to get some experience (alas, sometimes it's very painful, even deadly) to fear them. They also have to trust their parents, who tell them they musn't touch the plug or go close to the fireplace, that it is dangerous and can hurt them. Some parents even use fear as an educative resort (be obedient, don't do that, it would hurt you, etc). We inherite one part of our own fears from what other people tell us, and one part from our own experience. In Harry's case, I like to think he faced Voldemort and survived the Avada Kedavra because he didn't know he had to fear them. He was too young, his parents didn't have the time to instil into him the fear of the Dark Lord. and that's interesting, because it means that Harry survived not only thanks to Lily's love, but also thanks to his own innocence (an "innocent", if we take the latin origin of the word, is literally "someone who doesn't know"). Just quite the opposite of Tom Riddle, packed with hatred and dark knowledge, packed with fear of dying, of being rejected. Something Voldemort can't understand, and he has no power to destroy.

Iris, who doesn't think the movie has to be taken as an analysisng resort, but loves its casting.





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