Magic (was Re: Snape's mom-domestic abuse

[potioncat]

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>Terri wrote:
> Just a newbie with a thought.  I've always found that an underlying 
theme of the books is magic doesn't solve problems.  It is merely a 
tool to be used.  If magic could be used to solve everything, then 
Molly only has to wave her wand and Percy is back and the twins are 
not in the joke shop business, VD's father and mother are still 
together, etc.
> 
> A witch caught in a domestic abuse situation has to have the mental 
resources to be able to escape, all the magic in the world would not 
help.


Potioncat:
I think you've hit on a very good point. Look how excited Harry was 
to be going off to this magic school! The Big Friendly Giant was 
cool, the train was cool, the Great Hall was cool. Things were going 
to be so much better for him. Then there were a few surprises. The 
Potions Master was horribe. Quite a bit of the magic was unpleasant, 
the castle itself has some disagreeable habits. Magic not 
only 'doesn't solve problems' it creates a few more.

It makes me think of our own magical thinking "things would be so 
much better if only..." and I'm sure that's what JKR has in mind.