Fathers WAS: lupin's motives (was Depression (was Re: DH reread CH 31

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187507

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at ...> wrote:
>
> > Alla:
> > 
> > Hey, I am snipping your post Sherry just to react to your last two
> > sentences. I totally agree with you about JKR not portraying 
> > fathers too well in her series, but am I dreaming or there was an
> > interview where she said that untill certain moment she did not 
> > realize that exactly and then she could not bring herself to kill 
> > Arthur?

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Jen:
> In a separate interview on Dateline in 2007, JKR had this to say:
> 
> MV: So as an author, then, there were certain characters you couldn't bear to part with?
> 
> JKR: If there's one character I couldn't bear to part with, it's Arthur Weasley.  And I think part of the reason for that is there were very few good fathers in the books.  In fact, you could make a very good case for Arthur Weasley being the only good father in the whole series.

Geoff:
I wonder if she's discounted "off-stage" fathers. I know that James 
was revealed in OOTP as being less than perfect in relations with 
other Hogwarts students, but is there any evidence that he wasn't 
a good father to Harry?

OK, Harry lost him when he was a toddler but there seems to be 
a warmth in his subconscious feelings about his father and the 
"meetings" Harry has in GOF and DH seem to show that there was 
a great bond between them.