[HPforGrownups] Re: Nineteen years later

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 191590

Quoting pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com>:

>
> Dudley no longer thinks Harry is a waste of space, but Muggles in   
> general seem barely better than a waste of space themselves. Draco   
> has learned that dark magic and evil overlords are more trouble than  
>  they're worth, but he's probably still a bigot and might be a   
> violent bigot if  he got the chance. Kreacher is still a slave.

I've had a theory for a long time that house-elves' bond to their  
masters/mistresses is more like a familial bond than anything else.   
The reaction of Winky to being given clothes tends to support  
this...she reacted as though she'd been disowned by a family she still  
loved.  The gods know, I had my differences with my parents, but if  
I'd cut all ties with them and told them that they weren't, as far as  
I was concerned, my parents or part of my family any more, they'd have  
been utterly heartbroken.  (And when my brother saw the results, and  
caught up to me, I'd soon be utterly _headbroken,_ but that's another  
story.)


> Snape's dead.
>
>  Harry won't let anyone say that Slytherin isn't a legitimate   
> choice, but he thoroughly sympathizes with  Al's fervent desire not   
> to be one.

*mega-sigh*

Think about it for a few minutes.  Slytherin's going to have a lot of  
kids in it whose parents were on the wrong side of the war, whether  
out of loyalty, fear of change in the WW, or fear of the consequences  
if they didn't side with their kin.  Now imagine being the son of the  
guy who won eternal renown by defeating their Great Hope.  Not a  
pleasant existence, I don't think.


>
> It's a little scary that we don't know whether Draco was thinking of  
>  a constellation or a cold-blooded deadly creature when he named his  
>  son, but then, Albus and Severus had their cold-blooded deadly   
> aspect too. And Scorpius appears with his mom and dad, not a pair of  
>  hulking bodyguards.

I'd say he's following his family's apparent tradition of using star  
names.  Now, if he'd named the kid "Scorpio" after the zodiacal sign,  
I'd wonder if he was thinking about a crazy sniper played by Andy  
Robinson in _Dirty Harry,_ but that's just me.



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