Explain This Passage

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 180469

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Lizzyben:
> . Another oddity, to me, is that while the text 
> > seems to approve of Muggleborn/Wizard marriages, it seems to look 
> > down on Muggle/Wizard marriages. After all, the only two we hear 
> > about are totally dysfunctional & poisonous. 
> 
> Pippin:
> Nope. Seamus Finnegan's dad is a Muggle, and as far as we know the
> Finnegan family is just fine. They also don't seem to be cut off 
from
> the WW. We don't hear much about Seamus's dad, but there's no
> indication that he was unhappy once he got over the shock of 
learning
> he'd married a witch. 
> 
> The text shows that relationships between people who come from
> different cultures and can't assimilate are difficult -- who would 
argue 
> with that? 
> 

a_svirn:
Difficult, yes, it rings true. But do they have to be abusive? The 
text certainly shows the muggle/wizard relationships as such. 
Intimate relationship – Merope/Tom Riddle definitely abusive, the 
Finnegans – abuse of trust. We don't know what the problem with 
Snape's parents was, but their marriage had been on the rocks 
throughout his childhood, that much is clear. The relationships 
between wizading children and their mugle parents are abusive as 
well: practically all of them abuse their parent's trust (with the 
Hogwarts stuff's connivance), and Hermione abused her power, by 
robbing her parents from their identities. And every time we see 
muggle/wizard interaction we see wizards using and abusing their 
power. Magic is might.  

a_svirn.