On Children and the "Other" (was:Re: On the perfection of moral virtues)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 169505

Pippin:
> It seems that the fear of  oppression by the massively,
> blunderingly, fiercely intolerant  wizarding society, whose
> values the Trio are unconsciously adopting even as they
> consciously struggle to oppose them,  is so great that 
> Voldemort can use it to weld all these traditional enemies
> together.   I am hopeful that the Trio will come to see this.
> Of course it wouldn't do for them to figure it out too 
> soon, or we wouldn't have seven books :)

Jen:  Right, and the message that only by realizing 'differences of 
habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and 
our hearts are open' is the antithesis to the oppression that 
Voldemort has created.  I see the message of tolerance coming on the 
macro level more than the micro.  The Trio, like Dumbledore before 
them, will welcome people at their table as long as they are on the 
right side because the stakes are so high.  Those who oppose 
Voldemort will become allies and those who don't will fall the way of 
the Ministy.

Being able to *work* together to defeat a common enemy doesn't mean 
at a personal level they are going to like all they work with or 
advance to the point of seeing others values as being equally good to 
their own.  Dumbledore is being held up as highly advanced in the WW 
when it comes to opposing bigotry in all forms and seeing what is in 
someone's heart.  I don't see the Trio advancing to that level myself 
although they will make inroads.  They have, what, another 120 years 
or so to grow?!

If Draco does 'come over to the right side,' (and he will in my 
reading), he'll have a seat at the table.  What the Trio can't do 
separately supposedly they are doing together.  Harry has seen enough 
of what Draco is made of now, Dumbledore has *shown* him what Draco 
is made of, for Harry to find some tolerance in his heart.  Hermione 
has all along been the one most willing to trust Snape and cemented 
her position when she said, "'Evil' is a strong word"; I see her 
being the one to help them towards tolerance of Snape and willingness 
to see he also opposes Voldemort for whatever reasons are in his 
heart.  Ron?  I'm not sure.  Maybe his tolerance will come at the 
micro level?  Zacharias, Percy - there are some relationships where 
he could make personal movement forward as well as accepting the 
judgement of the other two when it comes to Draco and Snape.  He's 
already shown he can put aside some of his entrenched beliefs that he 
heard growing up in the WW, like about giants and werewolves, to 
accept Lupin and Hagrid (made easier by liking them).

That's at the core of what I see coming: can the Trio work with 
individuals they don't like and who don't like them?  They'll learn 
they must in order to defeat Voldemort.


Jen