Draco and Dumbledore/ Molly and Harry-Treated like Family

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159921

Steve:
> As the real story seems to be going, that won't be a 
> problem as Harry will probably marry Ginny and then he 
> really will be a member of the family. He really will 
> finally have home and family through the best and worst
> of times.
> 
> Steve - who still makes a distinction between house and
> home; 'house' is where I live, 'home' is where my mother
> lives, and I know that I can always go back there.

Magpie:
Unless they get divorced.;-)  Which I don't say because it's 
particularly likely, but to just say that Harry is exactly what he 
is to the Weasleys--a boy who's "like family" but is not one of 
Molly Weasley's children and not one of Ron's brothers, and they all 
know that.  If he marries Ginny he'd be a brother-in-law/son-in-law, 
and have his own home with his own children.  He has his own place 
with their family without being another son--his place isn't as 
assured as Percy's is (though of course I doubt Harry will be 
falling out with the Weasleys any time soon).  He barely knows some 
of the Weasley children.  I seriously doubt Charlie or Bill 
considers him a little brother like Ron.  In OotP, as I mentioned, 
Harry is completely aware that his own reaction to Arthur's attack 
is not the same as his children's.  Likewise his reaction to Sirius' 
death is different from Ron and Hermione's even though Harry doesn't 
know him much better.  He's not emotionally connected to Percy's 
leaving as they are.  The Weasley has a whole complicated dynamic 
completely outside of Harry that he sometimes sees, but is not part 
of--and that's fine.

I am familiar with the popular fanfic cliche of Harry searching for 
a family/home that he finds in the Weasleys--it was particularly 
popular post-GoF; I just don't always buy it.  Marrying Ginny would 
make him family, sure, but the head of his own family. Ironically 
the place where he must "call home" is the Dursleys--his blood 
family. And I don't see Harry searching for this the way he's 
sometimes described.  When canon actually touches on this subject it 
tends to deal with different things: Sirius is family, Hogwarts is 
the place that feels like home.

I think Harry will be a special part of the Weasley family his whole 
life, but always the same appropriate place.  As a Potter.

-m