Courtly love in Potterverse WAS: What triggered ancient magic?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187140


> Alla:
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> What you think he intended to kill him??? I disagree. We had seen several times that wizard kids often shown more resistant to physical injuries. I did not like Uncle Algie doing it at all, however I did not think for one second he intended to kill the boy, I thought that maybe he would do same thing as Dumbledore did when Harry was falling after Quidditch. I am sure he would not let him die.

Pippin:
Carol has already pointed out that things don't bounce until they make impact. I am sure JKR had in mind the kinds of things that used to happen to RL children who were thought to be changelings (often the mentally disturbed or deformed.) They were exposed or held to the fire in hopes of forcing the fairies to restore the human child they had supposedly stolen. IIRC there are cases where the parents were exonerated of murder because of this belief. 

Algie  no doubt would swear he was certain that Neville was magical, and was only trying to put the matter to rest. And had he been wrong, it would probably have all been hushed up, and everyone would have quietly agreed, after the second firewhiskey, that it was for the best. 
 
> Pippin:
> I'm afraid the purebloods are just not very sentimental about babies -- after all, if they didn't think they could disown their grandchildren, there wouldn't *be* any pureblood families.
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> Alla:
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> There is a  big difference to me between disowning and killing. And somehow I speculate that even Snape's mother loved him and certainly did not want him to dead, I doubt that this he could learn even in his childhood. No, I think he too eagerly learned the philosophy of his master – innocent lives including babies are worth nothing, etc.

Pippin:
Alla, Lucius Malfoy sent his own child to safety and then went off to torture some Muggles, including two children. That's the pureblood way: every life is not worth the same, and only some lives are worth saving. 

Pippin