It's especially weird when you consider that Lupin was hanging around the house. Lupin's the one who spent a year patiently dealing with Harry's fears and explaining things in a calm, relatively honest manner.
I guess he's only helpful when Dumbledore's paying him for it.
It just reinforced for me the Lycanthopy/AIDs metaphor that I thought she was going for. Although, I think a mental illness metaphor also works.
This chapter is the one where werewolfism sounds the most like AIDS to me, definitely.
I always got the sense that August harbored a lot of anger towards Neville for surviving her son and then not turning out to be very magical. I don't mind that he turned out to be a good general, or that he killed the snake. I'm just glad that someone turned out to be a competent leader.
Yes, the WW needs all the good leaders it can get. And I do think Neville is a great example of that type of hero (the only one in the WW, it seems, since most of them go along and work for Voldemort in DH). But with that grandmother, Neville's got a personal reason to kick ass.
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Date: 2008-03-29 12:51 am (UTC)I guess he's only helpful when Dumbledore's paying him for it.
It just reinforced for me the Lycanthopy/AIDs metaphor that I thought she was going for. Although, I think a mental illness metaphor also works.
This chapter is the one where werewolfism sounds the most like AIDS to me, definitely.
I always got the sense that August harbored a lot of anger towards Neville for surviving her son and then not turning out to be very magical. I don't mind that he turned out to be a good general, or that he killed the snake. I'm just glad that someone turned out to be a competent leader.
Yes, the WW needs all the good leaders it can get. And I do think Neville is a great example of that type of hero (the only one in the WW, it seems, since most of them go along and work for Voldemort in DH). But with that grandmother, Neville's got a personal reason to kick ass.