LV's Abiliity To Love - Sins Of The Father

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No: HPFGUIDX 110669

Harry had his mother's love.  I'm not talking about her warm fuzzy feelings, 
I mean that there was a deep magical, spiritual connection between them, that 
not only saved his life, but continues to protect him to this day.  That has 
to have had some affect on his temperament.

Maybe Lily cast a charm upon herself, so that Harry would have protection in 
the even of her death, or in the event of her dying for him.  But, maybe there 
wasn't anything that took place before hand, and it was only natural that he 
would have the protection after what happened.  Harry's protection might not 
have been the result of any protective spells, it could have been the basic 
nature of magic to act upon emotion.  

Voldemort's mother died shortly after he was born.  We don't know how she 
felt for him.  She might have loved him with all her heart, but that might not 
have been the way it was.  A lot of women don't feel any attachment to the 
fetus, and it takes a few weeks for them to begin to feel anything for their baby.  
So, in my theory, maybe Voldemort's mother died and, she technically died 
*for* him because of birth complications, but it wasn't voluntarily.  Yes, she 
carried him to term, and it may have been a high risk pregnancy, but I've been 
assuming that she lived in the muggle world since Voldemort's father didn't 
know she was a witch.  She might have aborted to save herself if she could have.  
>From cannon, she hasn't really done anything for him except make sure he knew 
his heritage, and that could have been pride more than caring.

So, in the mother department, Harry's coming out ahead.  Lack of love isn't 
enough to make somebody turn out that way, not matter how screwed up they are 
naturally?

Voldermort's mother wasn't his only parent, and a lot of people don't seem to 
be taking that into account.  Sure, his father wasn't a wizard, but I think 
non-wizards have an affect of their wizard offspring as well.  And muggles have 
an affect on wizards if they're not related.  Here's an example:

Creatures, humans, and animals, have been created by nature to be able to 
protect themselves.  If you're from the nice part of town and you're walking 
through the bad part of town, your body will respond automatically, even if you 
don't consciously tell yourself to be on your guard.  Maybe part of this is 
because you're scared; this is a dangerous place to be, but part of it could be 
that there's actual danger that you're not picking up on cognitively.

If those boys that had chased Harry onto the roof (of his gym, I think) had 
only wanted to tickle him, Harry's defensive magic would have picked up on 
that, and even though he was scared he wouldn't have been able to make that leap.  
The execution of that magic was based just as much on the bullies as it was 
based on Harry's reaction to them.

Perhaps, just was when Lily died for Harry, her death created a charm, when 
Voldermort's father rejected him, it created a curse.

Parentage holds a legacy.  Example: There are still a lot of black people who 
think they deserve reparations.  For non-US people, back in the day, we had 
slaves.  Our slave system was pretty racist, and they tended to be black, or 
part black.  Then, some people said, 'Hey, slavery's not fair!" and they made 
laws against it.  It still wasn't fair though, because the ex-slave owners were 
still rich, and the ex-slaves were still poor, and black (which people didn't 
like), and didn't know how to do anything other than be slaves.  So, the 
government said, "Hey, let's give them (the ex-slaves) some land and a mule.  
That'll get them back on their feet."  They never gave them the land and the 
livestock though, and, even though that took place back in the day (I'm *not* a 
history major), some black people feel that their race was crippled by this (which 
it probably was) and that current descendants of slave owners still owe them, 
because their father's father's father's ect screwed them over.  Obvious, 
these descendants had nothing to do with it, but somebody's gotta bear the 
burden, and some people say it may as well be them. (This has been from the 
perspective of a non-black, non-white, non-historian.)

There have been many instances in literature where the son's been punished 
for the sins of the father (I think there are some examples in the bible, but 
I'm not theologian), so there's obviously a link between the two of them, even 
though it doesn't make much sense to a person like me.  To me, if my parent's 
had been bad, abusive parents, or if they'd left me in a dumpsite or something, 
I wouldn't feel that I owed them anything.  There are plenty of people out 
there who would say, "But they're still your parents," even if they hadn't been 
parents to me.  My point with my ranting: a lot of people think there's a bond 
between a son and father that begins at conception and doesn't have anything 
to do with their relationship.  Maybe it's so in the wizarding world, and 
Voldermort's father's rejection of Voldemort screwed him thoroughly.


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