[HPforGrownups] Re: But DID James listen? (was LID!Snape rides again )

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 150054

Sue:

Well, I don't know about negative, but the only time we see her in her teens
she is telling off James for bullying and we know she grew up into a decent
woman - and her former potions teacher, if you recall, remembers her fondly
as likeably cheeky and feels she would have made a good Slytherin.
:-)Definitely no saint! She just did what a mother does to protect her
child. Heroic, but not saintly.



Sherry now:

Oh, absolutely, I agree with you.  But JKR seems to have done her best to
demolish every single father figure in the story, while keeping the mothers
pure and perfect.  Except for Tom's mother of course.  Having grown up with
my father who did his best to give me a great life, and not missing my
mother at all, who didn't want me because of my disabilities, I get
irritated at the cliché of bad father and holy mother.  I do agree that Lily
did what any *parent* would have done.  And I'm sure she was a great girl
and would have been fun to know, through the books.  But she becomes this
symbol of pure perfection somehow, and I'd just like to see her have a few
flaws, to make her more human and believable.

sherry