Betrayal (was Rowling and Philosophy)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 53703

Pippin wrote:

> Harry has yet to be  betrayed by anyone he really cares 
> about.  

We do seem to be working up to it, though, don't we?  For one thing, 
although he has not himself been betrayed in this way, he knows how 
deep betrayal can go, because it's how his parents met their deaths.  
He had those minutes of thinking he was betrayed by Lupin (no doubt 
you would call it foreshadowing <g>).  And to a lesser degree, in PA 
he feels betrayed by the people who knew his parents' story but 
concealed it from him:  Hagrid, Dumbledore, Mr. Weasley.  It is not a 
betrayal on Dante's grand scale, but there is an erosion of trust 
there.

(BTW, Brooklyn Dodgers fans know that there's a fourth figure in 
Satan's jaws in that final circle of the inferno:  Walter O'Malley.)

> Ron is the only one who's experienced that kind of 
> betrayal, by Scabbers. Maybe that explains his attitude in  GoF, 
> when  he  becomes so deeply suspicious of Harry and 
> Hermione too.

Great point.  "I let you sleep in my bed!" which I think is not 
disgust at having had another person (and a man) in his bed unawares, 
but horror at having extended trust and intimacy to a murderer.

Amy Z
who often suspects her cat of being human, but is sure she's benign