Lily's blood vs James' blood (was: Harry and the Half Brother Prince)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 103600


Sherry wrote :
> I keep going back to the fact, that if my father did that to me, I 
> would never forgive him, no matter what.  If he left me with cruel 
> unloving relations, to hide away ... I'd never forgive that.  It 
> would be a cruelty beyond what I can imagine.  I don't see James as 
> the sort who would willingly turn his son's protection over to 
> someone else like the Dursleys.

Del replies :
James would not have given up Harry in order to go and hide, but in
order to *protect Harry*. James had just had the most horrible proof
that *he*, James, was perfectly UNable to protect Harry. He'd just
lost his wife in a battle that didn't even manage to prevent LV from
casting an AK on Harry ! So if DD came up to him and told him that
there was a *perfect* way to protect Harry until he goes to Hogwarts,
I'm pretty sure James would have accepted right away !

To take a real-life example, France's cinema and literature are full
of stories of Jewish parents leaving their kids with whoever they
could find, in order to protect them, during the WWII. Those parents
knew that keeping the kids with them meant almost sure death to the
kids. So even when they were aware that the people they were leaving
the kids with were not nice people, even when they knew that the kids
would suffer with those people, they still left their kids with those
people, because they *loved* their kids, and wanted the *best* for
them. And when it's a choice between death and mistreatment, then
mistreatment is best.

Del