And Snape shares in the Black family loathing all things Potter.
But -- and this is an issue I've carried around for a while, and figure I can probably bring up here -- does the Black family loathe the Potter family, at all, even in the same way as they loathe the Weasleys? The Weasleys and the Potters always seem to be lumped together in fandom for some reason, when I've never had any indication that they should be. The Weasleys were apparently blasted off of the tapestry a long time ago, but we only discovered this because Arthur Weasley, at least, is from a distant branch of the Black family. Whereas the Potters never have been on the tapestry (I'm assuming Sirius would have said something if they had been, and it's unlikely that every pureblooded family is linked in some way), so how can you be a blood traitor to a faction of purebloods you have never belonged to? The use of the term traitor is significant to the Weasleys, which is why I can see it generating hate and/or anger, as they were once a part of the family, but the significance lessens when applied in fandom to the Potters.
Thus, if we can assume that hate for the Potters doesn't generate from any traitorous aspect of their conduct, what does it generate from? Or...does it generate at all? We have nothing to indicate that there are any sort of feelings between both families, whether in distant past or in Marauder-era past. Mrs. Black has no significant reaction to Harry that she doesn't have to every other member of the Order, despite his looking like the boy who apparently "seduced" her son away from the dark side; Kreacher's initial reaction to both Harry's name and person is curiousity over the kid who defeated Voldemort (later becoming disgust over ; we don't even know for sure whether Regulus was resentful towards James Potter for his friendship with Sirius, any more than we know whether Bellatrix's taunting of "baby Potter" was on behalf of her lord or her family, or whether Sirius joining the Potter family was a cause or a consequence of being blasted off of the tapestry.
There just doesn't seem to be much of a history present, even when including Sirius's defection.
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Date: 2005-09-08 03:09 pm (UTC)But -- and this is an issue I've carried around for a while, and figure I can probably bring up here -- does the Black family loathe the Potter family, at all, even in the same way as they loathe the Weasleys? The Weasleys and the Potters always seem to be lumped together in fandom for some reason, when I've never had any indication that they should be. The Weasleys were apparently blasted off of the tapestry a long time ago, but we only discovered this because Arthur Weasley, at least, is from a distant branch of the Black family. Whereas the Potters never have been on the tapestry (I'm assuming Sirius would have said something if they had been, and it's unlikely that every pureblooded family is linked in some way), so how can you be a blood traitor to a faction of purebloods you have never belonged to? The use of the term traitor is significant to the Weasleys, which is why I can see it generating hate and/or anger, as they were once a part of the family, but the significance lessens when applied in fandom to the Potters.
Thus, if we can assume that hate for the Potters doesn't generate from any traitorous aspect of their conduct, what does it generate from? Or...does it generate at all? We have nothing to indicate that there are any sort of feelings between both families, whether in distant past or in Marauder-era past. Mrs. Black has no significant reaction to Harry that she doesn't have to every other member of the Order, despite his looking like the boy who apparently "seduced" her son away from the dark side; Kreacher's initial reaction to both Harry's name and person is curiousity over the kid who defeated Voldemort (later becoming disgust over ; we don't even know for sure whether Regulus was resentful towards James Potter for his friendship with Sirius, any more than we know whether Bellatrix's taunting of "baby Potter" was on behalf of her lord or her family, or whether Sirius joining the Potter family was a cause or a consequence of being blasted off of the tapestry.
There just doesn't seem to be much of a history present, even when including Sirius's defection.