[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: PS/SS 1, The Boy Who Lived and Avatar SPOI...

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 187770

> Sherry now:
> I guess it didn't matter that his uncle could still abuse him though.  
> Just as long as no dark wizard could hurt him, who cared if his uncle
abused him?
> I'm really with Alla on this blood protection thing.  Because we never 
> see it do anything, and because Harry was clearly mistreated and 
> abused by his relatives, I have no confidence in or respect for the blood
protection.
> Except as a plot device to give us a boy who would have had such a 
> miserable life, that he'd wholeheartedly love and embrace the new 
> world, when he learns he's a wizard.

Alla:
Do you know what else sort of bugs me about blood protection thing? Why is
it blood protection instead of love protection? I mean obviously the answer
is that writer chose to do so, but if we are looking on the symbolic
protection of mother, who gave up her life for her child, one would think
that it makes sense for protection to increase ten fold, if Harry is raised
by the people who love him, right?

I mean, seriously be it Molly or Sirius or any other people who love and
care for him, why would not their love count more to increase Lily's
protection than Petunia's blood while it obviously does not even work
against her jerk husband from whose hands Harry had to duck in order not to
get hit when he was younger as Harry remembers in HBP. Was it in HBP?


Sherry:
Wow, that had never occurred to me before, but it makes sense.  Why not love
increasing the protection from Lily?  It was her love for Harry that caused
him to survive in the first place.  Hmmm, that's an interesting thought.
Too bad I don't write fan fiction!

Yes, it was HBP.  When Harry is going downstairs to meet Dumbledore, he
thinks that experience had taught him to stay clear of the reach of Uncle
Vernon's arm.  

Sherry