Date: 2006-06-18 10:04 pm (UTC)
"There's always all this focus on how great Harry is with his great power for love yadda yadda, and I think there is a suggestion that DD feels what he does for him because he's so personally special."

Particularly since apart from his lack of willingness to *control* his emotions, Harry shows no evidence whatsoever of being a particularly loving child.

I just had an uncomfortable flash there to the most uncomfortable (and autobiographical) of Diana Wynne Jones's novels "The Time of the Ghost".

Jones and her sisters were not brought up in a normal household and Jones has stated that it took her years to realize that and to deal with it. In Time of the Ghost, the mother of the (criminally negleted) four sisters makes up for her lack of involvement in her daughters' lives by making up glorious futures for each of them and convincing them that this is what their lives are destined to be.

In fact the children are left to inexpertly raise themselves and their mother's glorious imaginary futures are about the only thing they have of her. And these futures become as much a prison as a hope. The story, as I say, is extremely uncomfortable, but ends well.

But I'm suddenly seeing far too much resemblance between Phylis's glorious futures for her children and Albus's faith in Harry's power of Loveā„¢.
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