The Scar

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 160264


 
> Carol responds:
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> 
> Also, I don't know where you get the idea that there are plenty of
> Muggle marriages to witches or wizards. I know of three: Tom Riddle
> Sr. to Merope Gaunt (disastrous); Tobias Snape to Eileen Prince
> (apparently unhappy); and the Finnegans...

 JKR has said offlist that Remus Lupin is a Halfblood, but
> it seems likely that his parents, like Harry's, are a Muggleborn 
and a
> Pureblood. Tonks, too, is the child of a Muggleborn and a pureblood.

Potioncat:
Really? Only 3? For some reason I thought there were more. But off 
the top of my head, I can't come up with others. We know Dean 
Thomas's father was a wizard, but it's unclear if that story line is 
still valid. At any rate, none of Dean's family knew it.

Perhaps I am thinking of the Muggleborn-Magic couples and that would 
be different than Muggle-Magic.


> Carol:
> On a sidenote, the Squib Arabella Figg seems to have been married at
> some point (she's referred to as "Mrs." but we never see a husband).
> Since she lives among Muggles, she may have been married to one. 


Potioncat:
I'd almost bet--actually I would bet--- that her husband was a 
wizard. I know she's living in a Muggle community, but that's because 
she's watching Harry Potter. She still slips up and uses magical 
phrases "Cat's among the Pixies." She has a business selling Kneasle-
cat kittens. Also, it seems the norm for magical families to have 
houses tucked into Muggle neighborhoods.


> Carol, who doesn't see how a boy who was born a wizard could become
> either a Squib or a Muggle and thinks that JKR will compensate her
> hero for his sufferings by letting him really live (as the Prophecy
> implies)

Potioncat:
Now to the real point. Me too.

It boils down to opinion. Whether it is better writing for Harry to 
live or to die. Whether, if he lives, he makes a huge sacrifice. It's 
a case of I want against literary tradition.

It it were up to a vote, I'd vote to let him live. I'm not sure how 
tradition really plays into this. If this is a epic hero, I suppose 
it's tradition for him to die. If it's a coming of age, he should 
leave school triumphant. If it's a mystery, we should find out who 
done it. (The mild mannered, quiet wizard in the background.)

I think it will be one of Trelawney's correct predictions. Harry will 
die---that is the bit O'Voldy will die, and Harry will live a long 
life with his wife and 12 children. 

That's my opinion anyway.

Potioncat
IWHTL