someone else being right / James's parents
potioncat
willsonkmom at msn.com
Mon Apr 14 11:37:00 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 182514
> CJ wrote:
> I think it's another missed opportunity. A better backstory on the
> Potter family could have disposed of the gparents *and* enriched
the
> story.
Potioncat:
That would be true if there was a back story, but there wasn't. If
she had given us more information about the senior Potters, she would
need to give us more about the Evans family. It would be harder to
keep information about young Severus out of it.
It's enough that Harry's parents were heroes of a sort. I don't think
JKR wanted Harry to be from a long line of heroes. Or to know of a
long line of grievances against LV. That would have made the
Potter/LV battle more of a family feud. And we already had that with
the Snape/Potter conflict.
JKR anchored much of her plot to the DD and Snape arcs. James and
Lily were the characters that things happened to, rather than the
ones moving the story. So I can't imagine JKR would have had too much
to say about their parents.
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