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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