This moment

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 175272

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shirley" <shirley2allie at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a moment in DH where you really identify with a 
> character, or 
> > the character's situation? It doesn't even have to be a character 
> you 
> > generally identify with---just a moment that particularly speaks 
> to you.
> > 
> > Potioncat, who will post her moment later, and who is creating 
> light- 
> > weight threads because she doesn't have the intellectual energy at 
> the 
> > moment to join in with the heavier ones, but is reading them with 
> great 
> > enjoyment.
> >


When I catch up to more of my posts so I don't go over the limit, I'm
sure I'll respond to some of the threads I've been participating in,
but for now, my moment...

I've mentioned this before, actually, but for me, it was Petunia's
letter to Dumbledore.

It makes sense to me that most of us on this site have at some point
hoped we'd be granted magic powers, or get to escape for real into a
world like those we read about in books, but we grew up, and it never
happened.

And here, we see two little girls, one of whom is invited to join that
world.  Told she has unbelievable powers, and there's an entire
alternate universe that she is welcome to join.  And her sister isn't.
It broke my heart, because I can't imagine what it would be like if my
sister, or friend, or anyone suddenly got this magic ticket to a whole
new world, and I was told, sorry, you can't come - even worse that it
was told so kindly by Dumbledore.

And what kind of world does Petunia wind up in?  One married to Vernon
Dursley, of whom we've seen precious little to regard as worthwhile. 
Maybe Petunia did look for one of the biggest Muggles there is to get
further from a world she could never join.

The most powerful message of calvinism and fate dictated by birth
isn't Slytherin, it's the simple fact of magic vs. non-magic.  There
is no choice, no personality judgment, no qualifications.  But some
get the magic ticket, and some get left behind.

Poor Tuney.

~Adam (Prep0strus)