Fathers; Tobias & Eileen

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 143652

Lyra:

"How many fathers do we actually see in the books? Vernon, who 
does an abysmal job with Dudley; Arthur, who is probably the 
best of the lot; Lucius, raising a baby DE; Tom Riddle Sr. who 
abandons his child before it's born; James, who dies defending 
his son before really getting much chance to be a father, 
workaholic Barty Sr. who sends his son to prison then sneaks 
him out. Some of the fathers we see are just brief snippets, or 
less: Catonic Frank Longbottom; the senior Potter who took in 
Sirius Black as a second son, shocked-to-learn-he-married-a-witch 
Mr. Finnegan; and probably shouting Tobias Snape. If you accept 
that "fathering" is a sort of theme in the stories, it seems 
likely the shouting man would be the father of Snape, a major 
character, rather than the father of his mother, a minor 
prescence at best."


What about Mr. Diggory, Cedric's father?  

And as for Tobias and Eileen, just because a couple yell and 
scream at one another sometimes doesn't mean they don't love 
each other.  My parents fought a lot, but I know they loved 
each other--although I admit that as a child I didn't 
understand that.  

Bruce Wilson