Good moral core (Re: Dirty Harry/Clean Harry)

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 117053


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Jim: 
> > How did Harry get that way? We won't settle the nature/nurture
> > argument here, but Harry at least had a year (important) with loving
> > parents. The miracle is how he survived the Dursleys. Now he is in 
> an
> > environment with people he cares for deeply. Voldemort was brought 
> up
> > in an orphanage, and we don't know what that experience was like.
> 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> True, Jim. A year with loving parents is actually the only reason for 
> Harry to remain "good" which makes sense to me. Otherwise, I just 
> have to doubt the truth of JKR writing.

> I also love Rita Winston's theory that Lily left part of herself in 
> Harry's head or heart, which supported him through all these years 
> with Dursleys.

I guess Catlady means Lily left some part of herself in Harry
*magically."  EVERY mother leaves HUGE parts of herself in her
children.  So do good fathers.  That's why being a parent is sacred.

Jim