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

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150062


On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Sherry Gomes wrote:

> 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

kchuplis:

Do remember that Lily then sneered and called Snape Snivellus after  
he called her a mudblood. A "saint" would have over looked that. She  
was just being a decent person, not necessarily a Saint. And even  
good fathers can have clay feet (which I think is more to the point  
here. It is dangerous to 'hero worship' anyone - which Harry was well  
on the way to doing.)