[HPforGrownups] Generation Parallels

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 78667

 

I've been reading through the posts, and a thought struck me.  Now 
this probably has been discussed to death, but being relatively new 
to this, I find it hard to search the posts.  The sheer volume is 
daunting.

My thought is this...

Don't you think there is a nice balance to JKR's story.  I mean we 
have the current trio; Harry, Ron, and Hermione.  Then there is the 
trio of the past; James, Remus, and Sirius.  Draco is Harry's 
nemisis, Snape was James.   There is Wormtail, the bumbler, and 
Nevile, his modern counterpart.  

Can anyone think of anymore?  And how do these parallels relate to 
the story?  Are there clues here as to what will happen?

IMHO, and I did post this in the past; though to find my post is 
difficult; if JKR is seeking to balance the story, we find Harry in a 
loveless home environment at the beginning of his saga.  To make the 
scales equal, don't you think he should end up part of the Weasly 
family (I know some of you SHIPpers, disagree) by being with Ginny?

D - an optomist at heart, if ever there was one.




Ah, but there are funny twists... Neville is no Peter, for one. From the
pensieve chapter, we see that Peter was a sniveling sycophant, something
Neville is decidedly NOT. Also from same chapter, I think we see that
Harry is really more like *Lily* than he is like James. He has his
mother's eyes, indeed. Is Draco really like Snape? Perhaps, but we still
do not know what will become of Draco. 

 

I don't like generational parallels to justify ships. I have seen both
H/Hr shippers and H/G shippers make cases here. However, it smacks
slightly of Oedipal complex to me to use those justifications. I *do*
think the one thing Harry needs most is family, or rather, to be loved.
I think the Weasleys do love him, but I don't think he has to marry into
their family for that to be the case - he is already like a son to them.


 

Helen 

 



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