[HPforGrownups] Keeping Secrets (was Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 2, The Vanishing Glass

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 187776

Potioncat:
So is secrecy/failure of communication a motif or a theme in JKR's work?

Lynda:
I think so. Look at Lupin's blind trust of DD. Look at the effect that DD's
hidden past had on Harry, and then consider that for Harry, this was par for
the course, so to speak. The only thing was, he had come to trust DD
completely, had no idea of a secret in his past, thought DD was different
than other adults he had known.
Drawing from real life, I have a friend who from outward appearances grew up
in a normal family: father, mother, two younger brothers. Except that the
life that her parents lived and so therefore that she lived was far
different than the one they presented to the outside world. My friend, now
married with two small children of her own nearly lost her own family
because she never told her husband about their secret life. He knew, going
into the marriage that she had been raised differently. He knew about the
being shut into a closet for lengthy periods of time and about some of the
psychological problems she has, but he didn't know how extreme the abuse was
and when it started catching up with her he was on the brink of leaving her
before she started talking to him and they were able to mend their
relationship and I think I can see a parallel to this in the HP books. Of
course, in fiction, a healing of potential psychological trauma is more
easily affected than in real life.

Lynda


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