I agree with annoni_no, Jo's HP universe is the universe Jo herself -- or at least her psyche -- inhabits in RL.
No close female friends, no close biological sisters, except for the 2-dimensional almost cartoonish Parvatis and the dysfunctional Blacks.
But in Jo's HP universe we are not only faced with the question regarding the absence of close friendships amongst contemporaries of the "Marauder Era", but also the question of why, by Harry's era, there is a decidedly strange lack of any large extended families spanning generations. For a population where living to over 100 years of age is not unusual, why are there no grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts and uncles, etc.?
What happened to Harry's grandparents, both Evans and Potters? Ditto Molly and Arthur Weasley's parents. The only grandmother we see mentioned is Neville's, leaving open the question of what happened to his other 3 grandparents.
So what we end up with is a singularly disjointed society that Jo presents to us, one that seems to have had it's moorings cut from it's immediate past.
This is the moral equivalent of having your friends hold somebody while you punch them, or shoving over someone in a wheelchair, then laughing when they can’t get up.
Bizarrely, the above statement exactly applies to the current Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States! :-P
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Date: 2012-08-18 08:08 pm (UTC)No close female friends, no close biological sisters, except for the 2-dimensional almost cartoonish Parvatis and the dysfunctional Blacks.
But in Jo's HP universe we are not only faced with the question regarding the absence of close friendships amongst contemporaries of the "Marauder Era", but also the question of why, by Harry's era, there is a decidedly strange lack of any large extended families spanning generations. For a population where living to over 100 years of age is not unusual, why are there no grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts and uncles, etc.?
What happened to Harry's grandparents, both Evans and Potters? Ditto Molly and Arthur Weasley's parents. The only grandmother we see mentioned is Neville's, leaving open the question of what happened to his other 3 grandparents.
So what we end up with is a singularly disjointed society that Jo presents to us, one that seems to have had it's moorings cut from it's immediate past.
This is the moral equivalent of having your friends hold somebody while you punch them, or shoving over someone in a wheelchair, then laughing when they can’t get up.
Bizarrely, the above statement exactly applies to the current Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States! :-P