[HPforGrownups] Re: Spy novel? maybe (was Lupin's secrets )

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118572

--- delwynmarch <delwynmarch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would tend to agree, if it weren't for huge counter-examples like
> Riddle, and even more importantly, Peter Pettigrew. I think that
> with those two examples (among others), JKR has amply demonstrated 
> that we simply cannot trust anyone.


I disagree.  The examples you site (Peter, Riddle, Percy, et al)
aren't a sign that Harry (and we)can't trust anyone but rather that
but rather that Harry (and we) shouldn't assume we know a character
based on superficial outward characteristics. 

That Percy would act the way he did at the start of OOTP (getting
huffy about his parents' lack of support for his new job, moving out,
rejecting CHristmas presents, etc.) should not have been a surprise
to us if we really consider what he was like in earlier books and how
his personality would react.  

That Peter betrayed the Potters and framed Sirius should not have
been surprising had they really known him instead of assuming that
they did.  The signs were there, but James and Sirius interpreted
them incorrectly, and paid for that mistake dearly.  Had they really
thought about it they'd have realized that Peter could not be trusted
to resist more powerful individuals.

It's not a matter of trust but rather not taking things for granted,
not peaking behind the facade for the real person behind it.  

Magda


		
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