Harry has TWO parents

[marinafrants <rusalka@ix.netcom.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51194

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak <pipdowns at e...>" 
<pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "errolowl 

> 
> > ErrolOwl
> > That's why you have close friends. If you can't have faith in
> > them, or you keep doubting them, the friendship is doomed. James 
> > was willing to trust his friends with his life..that should be a 
> > good thing.
> 
> Let me see. James, dead. Lily, dead.
> House, in rubble.
> Black, framed and banged up in Azkaban.
> Lupin, thinking his closest friend was a traitor.
> Harry, having to live with the Dursley's.
> 
> No, I don't think James's willingness to trust his friends with 
his 
> life *was* a good thing. 

The fact that James' decisions in this case led to bad consequences 
does not mean that the decision itself was wrong.  We've seen at 
least two instances where Harry definitely did the right thing, yet 
the results were disastrous.  He kept Sirius and Lupin from killing 
Pettigrew, which led to Pettigrew escaping and bringing back 
Voldemort.  He chose to share the House Cup with Cedric, which led 
directly and almost immediately to Cedric's death.  Sometimes you do 
what's right and it works out badly, but that doesn't mean you 
shouldn't do what's right the next time.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com