[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry not related to the Dursleys? Harry vs Ron?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 55868

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, finwitch wrote:

> Further, it is interesting to note that Ron isn't at all addicted 
> about the Mirror. Imperius Curse OTOH is something that greatly 
> affects Ron, but not Harry, who manages to shake it off...

That *is* interesting.  I think, when it comes down to it, Ron is a much
happier person than Harry.  The things Ron saw in the Mirror are really
pretty superficial.  He already has the really important things: a
supportive family, unconditional love, a place he belongs, etc.  I think
for Harry the pull of the Mirror is so much stronger because what he wants
is to find a piece of himself he feels is missing, whereas Ron just wants
material things.


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"