Dumbledore and Petunia

[krista7]

No: HPFGUIDX 142923

Responding to two small posts together:

 hpfan_mom wrote:
>If anyone has the willpower to squelch down magical talent until it 
>just about disappears, to clean it out of her life, so to speak, 
>it's Petunia.
<snip>
>It would also be a nice parallel if the magic Petunia performs is in 
>the Battle of Privet Drive to protect her son.

Since "love" is the key word of the entire series, and if Petunia has one 
motivation in life it's her son, I think it is safe to say that if Dudley is in
dire threat, any magic in Petunia *would* come to the fore.

(This was one of the major reasons I originally fell in love with HP,
that the "magic" really just comes back to love, pure and simple.)

Quoted from sistermagpie:

>Basically, to me it seems like the problem is this: Rowling started 
>out with a fairy-tale/Roald Dahl idea so Harry has terrible 
>parents.  Unfortunately, due to her plot, the magical mentor 
>character was also the person engineering his early abuse.  It's the 
>mixing of two genres, I think, that's causing a problem. 

To me, the problem with Dumbledore is that he represents an ideal
 (the epitome of goodness) and we all want to believe he's 
all-knowing/all-powerful; that he could allow such abuse 
just runs entirely counter to what we believe of his character. 
Actually (just thinking aloud here), I don't consider myself 
an overtly religious person, but the thread about Dumbledore 
and abused Harry really, really, really made me think about 
the ages-old debate of how an all-powerful, all-knowing, 
loving God can let bad things happen to good people. And
since I can't resolve that in a nifty email, I'm just going to
send this thought bubble out to y'all!




Krista