Harry and starvation

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 123601


Phoenixgod2000 wrote:
"Harry would be able to handle whatever came along because he is the 
son of two people who defied the dark lord three times. He endures 
because he is the son of a man who held off a wizard whom is the 
boogyman of his world for as long as he could.  He can perservere
because his mother was the kind of woman who would shield her child 
from a killing curse with her own body and weave a spell of ancient 
power in her dying moments.
 
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.
 
If blood tells, then the pureblood ideologists have it right, and the
Muggleborns (the descendants of people who persecuted and killed the
wizards) should indeed be excluded from the WW.


Alla:

I interpreted Phoenixgod' argument as  it is much more likely that 
Harry got his strength of character from his parents than from 
resisting Dursleys' abuse.

Of course , blood is not a guarantee that person will turn out a 
certain way ( and it should not be,IMO), BUT it is a possibility ( 
which I wholeheartedly agree with Rowena) that child will 
genetically inherit certain character qualities from the parents.

Child may or may not be anything like his parents in character, but 
I do agree with Phoenixgod that Harry inherited the best qualities  
of both of his parents and THAT made him strong.


Just my opinion of course,

Alla