Tom Riddle's Birth (Re: JKR Chat "The Crucial ...")

[bufo_viridis at interia.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 92408

Naama: 
> What if Tom's mother, before she died, did indeed cast some kind of 
> protective charm on him, but it was based not on her love for him, 
> but on her hatred of his father? 

> If we see the magical as a metaphor for the psychological (this is 
> clearly the case with the protection that a mother's love provides), 
> it does happen in real life - parents raising their child to hate, 
> almost base their whole personality, on a hatred of a betraying 
> spouse.

That's one possibility of oposition: 
positive charm v. negative charm (love v. hatred)

The other one would be:
positive charm (metaphor of parentallove) v. lack thereof 

Both possibilities sound good on both, magical and metaphorical, planes.

Cheers, Viridis
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