Merope (wasLily the popular girl--now meropes psychic?)

[laurie goudge]

No: HPFGUIDX 168066


> Magpie:
> I couldn't believe that either. What Dumbledore says
> is that Merope "lacked 
> Harry's mother's courage" which is just...obnoxious.
> Maybe you could say 
> someone died from lack of courage if they were
> afraid to take a risk that 
> would have saved their life, but judging Merope's
> death after having her 
> baby as a lack of courage comes uncomfortably close
> to saying that a) dying 
> is a character flaw and b) depression is a lack of
> courage.
> 
> I'm sure JKR believes neither of those things, but
> it's not one of 
> Dumbledore's better moments.
> 
> -m 

parisfan writes:

I do agree with magpie. It does seem presumptuous to
say she had a 'lack of courage'.  From what little we
have seen of Merope's life, she has been given very
*few* chances to be out there on  her own making
choices good or bad.

It was certainly a bold (maybe not brave) but bold
none the less to go after Tom Sr. when her father and
brother were out of the way. 

And i am sure it was crushing for her to find out that
it really *did* take a potion to keep the man of her
dreams and to find this out after she took a chance
and gave Tom Sr a choice of being with her or not.

For me the courage lies in the fact she TRIED leaving
an abusive situation and making it on her own along
with instead of keeping the 'man of her dreams'
through forced or artificial means allowing him to
decide weather or not he'd stay through his own free
will and end up leaving her in the end.

IMHO it was probably one too many blows for her
psychic to deal with that lead her to die in
childbirth. I am guessing in real life this can happen
as well.




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