Responses of children (Re: In Defense of Molly Weasley (Long))

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 176282

> Jen:  <SNIP> After reading the part in the Epilogue where Harry 
talked to Albus 
> Severus, my son's reaction was first to laugh at the name, 'that's 
> funny, he named him Albus Severus,' LOL - that went on for 
awhile.  
> Then after we finished the reading, his only response was, "Harry 
was 
> saying Slytherin is good now, right?"  I wasn't sure how to 
respond 
> since my reading was taking into account all the other books, all 
the 
> comments here, all my own expectations, blah blah blah....  I 
ended 
> up muttering one of those patently useless parent things when it's 
> hard to explain everything you're thinking, "Yeah, I think maybe 
> that's what he's saying there - that's what you see, right?"  He 
> didn't care, he was already headed out the door to play ball, 
certain 
> of his rightness...;)


Alla:

Jen, I actually find your son's reaction to be very interesting. I 
do wonder if somebody else's kids made a similar remark in any way, 
shape or form. Meaning whether they took from Harry naming his kid 
Albus Severus that JKR is saying that Slytherin is now good.

The only kiddo in my family is 2.5 now so, there would be a long 
time till I can know her reaction to this  :)


Because if several kids took same message from this event ( of 
course it is not a reasonable statistics, but still) then at least I 
think we can make an argument that JKR successfully drove this 
message at least to the younger audience. IF of course she intended 
to give the message about the changes in Slytherin.

I mean, maybe kids did not need to see the good Slytherin emerge or 
to see the good in the Slytherins we saw, maybe, just maybe if they 
were not invested in the house of Slytherin in general, maybe that 
was indeed enough for them to accept the changes in Harry POV as the 
changes in the Slytherin itself?

I wonder. Of course maybe no other kid took this message, so I could 
be totally off base here.

JMO,

Alla