In defense of Molly /Molly's treatment of Arthur

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 136677



> Ongj87:
> First of all, for someone who is so against the "male bias" of this 
> book (which I disagree with), you seem to take this favor of Lily 
> over James very sourly, in my opinion.

Bias *against* men, not bias towards them. Hence the sourness over 
James being supposedly less brave.
 
> The seventh book is not out yet, obviously, and we obviously know 
> there is something more to Lily than we can see.  There was a 
> definite reason why Voldemort was willing to spare Lily's life that 
> night, and I don't think they're very pure reasons either.  So we 
> can't argue this point fully until the seventh book comes out.

Perhaps. We certainly don't know it all, but I doubt will learn 
anything that will change the past that much.
 
> Secondly, this is merely the opinion of JK Rowling as she looks at 
> the events she has written.  I doubt she wrote them with a 
> purposeful biased, but just how the story flowed.  The 
circumstances 
> she created just happened to give Lily the oppurtunity to make a 
> heroic sacrifice.  I'm sure that JK would agree that if James was 
> given the same circumstnace, he would have without a doubt done the 
> same thing as Lily.  It has nothing to do with character, but with 
> the situation, and the situation made it so that Lily had to step 
up 
> the plate, so to speak.  

Once again, maybe. I'm not so sure about that. I think it's telling 
that it is always the mother getting the chance to step up, leaving 
the father behind.
 
> You will no doubt agree with me in saying that when Harry goes to 
> Godric's hollow, he will find out more about his parents.  And I 
> have no doubt that Harry's image of being a hero will be 
reinstated, 
> good as new.  The point of breaking the image of a saintly person 
> was to just to support a point that JK is trying to make in this 
> entire series.  Harry has met many people who have become good 
> despite their birth circumstances and past, the following 
characters 
> being only a few examples: Sirius, Remus, Snape, Draco, Hagrid, 
> etc.  This whole thing with James is only a piece in the puzzle 
> concerning this matter.  No matter what background someone comes 
> from, no matter what family they're born into or what they were 
born 
> as, not matter what they've done in the past, people can be given a 
> second chance.  And people can change.  Remind you, I say SECOND 
> chance.  Third, forth, and so on chances not included (*ahem* did 
> you hear that TOM?).

We'll have to agree to disagree on some of those characters. I still 
don't think much of Snape or Draco. If saintly characters have to be 
deconstructed for her point, why not do it for Lily as well? Why only 
the father?