[HPforGrownups] Merope's Selfishness

[Andrea Grevera]

No: HPFGUIDX 147118



  SSSusan:
  "But to call what she did at the orphanage "an act of utter selfishness"?  I 
  can't go that far.  She had been left by Tom, she was flat broke, she had no 
  family she could turn to for help, and no assets left.  Did you not feel 
  despair in what she did? desperation? depression? <snip>"


  BAW:
  She could at least have left him at a WIZARDLING orphanage; I'm sure they 
  exist. (We don't know that they do, but we don't know that they don't, and 
  every society must make SOME provision for babies and children whose parents 
  can't or won't properly care for them.)

  BAW 

  Andie:

  But how was she to know if Baby Tom would be a wizard?  If he was non magic
  and grew up in a wizard orphanage he would have been subject to the same
  child nastiness that he used on the muggle children where he grew up and he wouldn't
  have understood why he couldn't be like the other children.
  I'm not standing up for Tom, not at all, but there should have been some
  other way for Merope to get help.  

  She knew of Diagon Alley, she was at Borgin & Burkes, I'm sure if she
  had asked for help in Diagon Alley someone would have been able to direct her
  somewhere even if it was St. Mungos.

  Yes she was depressed and didn't know where to turn but if she only asked
  she would not have been left alone, Tom wouldn't have grown up in a muggle
  orphanage, he wouldn't have turned rotten, he wouldn't have become LV and
  we wouldn't have a story.

  Andie





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