[HPforGrownups] Gilding the Lily

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 114377

Distaiyi wrote:
> In war time how is it "remarkable" to die?
> The wizarding world was in "civil war" so to speak. Voldemort was on
> a rampage. It is not remarkable that the parents of two Volemort
> resisters would have met untimely ends.

Point taken, but with just two provisos.

First one is not that it would have been unremarkable in the context of the
war for Harry's grandparents all to have died at the hands of the DEs, but
wouldn't it have been fairly important in the context of the _story_ for
Harry to learn what had happened, not only why he didn't have any
grandparents but also whether that was the real explanation for Petunia and
her fear and loathing of wizardry.

Second point is that the WW isn't behaving like a society which had suffered
the kind of trauma which losing most of a generation would inflict.
Admittedly the only grandparent we've seen is Neville's gran (and even she's
a widow) but that could just as easily be perspective: we haven't seen a lot
of _parents_ either, apart from the Weasleys and, fleetingly, the Graingers.

There could quite easily be a grandad Septimus and a great-grandad
Heironymus hidden away at Malfoy Mansion!

Cheers

Ffred

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