Why were the sacrifices different? (was: A moral theory of Magic )

[djrfdh]

No: HPFGUIDX 95336

 
Kneasy:
> And I agree with you - plot lines in fiction may require the male 
> to make the ultimate (and quite often pointless) sacrifice. It's 
> very nearly a cliche; in fact if they *don't* they're considered to 
> have failed and possibly to have acted in a cowardly manner. Hardly 
> fair; they've got pensions to look forward to and then some author 
> shoves them out the door to pitch face-forward in the dust at the 
> feet of some arch-villain. To add insult to injury, it's the wife 
> and kids that get all the sympathy when it wasn't them that did the 
> dying.
> There ain't no justice.


Except, Lily also died, and she is clearly not a man, so where's your 
point? Some mothers die giving birth also to sons, are they not, also 
making the supreme sacrifice?....dying so one may live....and as far 
as sympathy, I don't think you can say that Harry ever got any 
sympathy from his family....and the only one who has ever given him 
any is Mrs. Weasley....yes, Hermione and Ron, Dumbledore, Hagrid and 
even his teachers "feel" for him, but even they haven't the capacity 
for a "mother's love". Aren't men supposed to be the protectors? From 
the cave-men days, didn't they do the hunting while the "little 
woman" stayed at home and swept-out the cave and had the kids? I 
don't think it's in a man's nature to nuture.

djrfdh with just one woman's opinion.