Harry and starvation

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 123597


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> Blood tells."
> 
> Del replies:
> Blood tells nothing, and one's parents don't determine how one is
> going to evolve.
> 
> Draco doesn't measure up to his father in any way.
> 
> Sirius rejected his family.
> 
> And most of all, Neville, the son of two people who defied the dark
> lord three times, the grandson of an old woman with a strong 
backbone,
> is only starting to pull himself together.

   Goodness or badness is not hereditary - obviously - but strength 
of character may be - to a degree. As for the rest; 'We are defined 
by our choices'.

   Sirius chose to use the strength of character inherited from that 
fury or a mother of his to reject the twisted values she tried to 
teach him.

  Poor Draco doesn't seem to have much strength or character. And 
he's accepted *his* family's values.

   Thanks to James and Lily's genetic endowment, or their early 
influence, or both Harry is able to overcome his negative enviroment 
and become a decent, caring person.

   Poor Neville had his self confidence undermined, (unmeaningly I'm 
sure) by his harridan of a grandmother. But given incentive his 
latent strength, both magical and moral, finally begins to come to 
the fore.