[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius, Sirius, and more Sirius

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 158500

Sherry:

But love is not instinctive among blood kin. I neither like nor love my
biological mother or her children from her second husband. I don't hate
them either. I simply do not care. But I love as dearly as any daughter,
the woman who was my father's second wife and who raised me from when I was
6 to 14. Blood is not thicker than water, but love is most definitely
thicker than blood. However, I think it's possible that Petunia may once
have loved her sister, and the jealousy only came along after the Hogwarts
letter came. Either way, I've always been slightly uncomfortable on the
whole thing about the blood magic, because everything else in the books
seems to point out how too much emphasis on blood is wrong and leads to the
discrimination against Half bloods, Muggle borns, muggles and on.

Sherry

Lynda:

Oh, I was speculating there.  I should probably have added that this would
be occurring in the world JKR has prepared for the population of the Harry
Potter books.  I certainly understand about not feeling an amount of love
for family, because I have difficult relations with my family as well and am
much closer to non-blood "kin" (I refer to friends not inlaws or steps
here). I don't say I don't love my family however.  As my non-kin sis says.
"Of course I love you.  I'm commanded to love you" I simply don't always
like them.

Lynda


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