[HPforGrownups] Re: Question about HP (Evans?)

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 82536



From: "deedeee88"
> Harry, like most MALE adolecsents--60 percent and higher are
> obsessed/more concerned with their fathers rather than their
> mothers.  This is why we come into HP's life at age 11 (to ensure the
> mystery).
>
> I love JKR...she can finish off the series without any clues to
> Harry's  parentage if need be. (for the past five books 99 percent of
> it has been James, JAmes, JAMes, JAMEs, JAMES, (Lily) JAMEs,(Harry)
> JAMes, JAmes,(Harry), James(LILY), and, james.....)
>
> "deedeee88"


Iggy:

I think you're also missing something important here...

Throughout all 5 books, the only way people compare Harry to his mother is
with his eyes.  Other than that, whenever someone who new his parents sees
him, they always say that he's the spitting image of his father.  And this
isn't always physically, since they also notice similar mannerisms and (of
course) his talent for being a Seeker.

Not only this, but a good deal of the undertone of OotP is people starting
to realize that he's NOT his father and that he's more and more his own
person... much like any teenager growing up.  At about age 15, most teens
begin more strongly establishing their own identities.  And the person this
strikes the hardest is the person Harry cares about the most at the time...
Sirius.

So of course there's been a stronger "presence" of his father in Harry's
life, even with his parents dead, and it's not because Harry is obsessing
over him at all.  It's because everyone else who knew his parents point it
out.

Can someone site me canon where Harry has a marked preference to his father
compared with his mother?  (From everything I've read, he's equally
interested in both, but for different reasons.  His mother because of the
sacrifice she made for him, and his father because e wants to learn WHY
people keep saying he's so much like James.)


'Nuff said

Iggy McSnurd
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