[HPforGrownups] Re: Working mothers, was Did the Slytherins come back

[Tom Kish]

No: HPFGUIDX 181836

> Montavilla47:
> I'm not trying to bash JKR about her portrayal of
> either mothers or non-mothers. I'm just pointing
> out that she seems to be a lot of power into mother
> love--the other side of which is that women without
> children tend to end up looking inconsequential and
> those who divide their attention between work and
> children end up with bad kids.


Whybnormal

I think the point that all of you have missed is that through the series J.K.R. repeats that a person is responsible for their own choices. According to the reasoning that you guys are using Harry should have ended up like Voldemort.  Harry was raised without parents like Voldemort, but instead of an orphanage like Voldemort, Harry was raised in a home where, instead of having unfeeling caregivers, he had family who showed him nothing but scorn and outright dislike.  Now I ask you who would be more justified growing up angry at the world and wanting revenge?

Harry's choice to care about people and to do his best to protect them made him who he was.  Percy Weasley's ambition to succeed at the ministry made his decisions for him. Voldemort's lust to be somebody made his decisions for him.  At the bottom of it all is love for others or lack thereof.