Point of clarification...?
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deathtocapslockSo I was rereading scenes from HBP for an upcoming essay I have planned, when I came across this line:
"They [the orphans] looked reasonably well-cared for, but there was no denying that this was a grim place in which to grow up." (HBP, 268)
The question is: is it to the orphanage's discredit that the place is grim? Or is it Voldemort's? Or else is it just another way of stressing how overly important and powerful death is that all orphans must be miserable every second so matter how they're treated?
Ideas, anyone?
"They [the orphans] looked reasonably well-cared for, but there was no denying that this was a grim place in which to grow up." (HBP, 268)
The question is: is it to the orphanage's discredit that the place is grim? Or is it Voldemort's? Or else is it just another way of stressing how overly important and powerful death is that all orphans must be miserable every second so matter how they're treated?
Ideas, anyone?
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