Who cares about Muggleborns when Harry doesn't know if Dumbledore loved him a hundred years before he was born?
Not Rowling, that's for damned sure. Drives me mad, it does.
Everybody at the Ministry's just happily going along with this "stealing magic" idea even though no, it really doesn't make sense (and when Ron says something doesn't make sense it must be really obvious it doesn't make sense).
I think that Rowling's mirroring the illogical claims against the Jews in pre-war Germany.
It's not an idea that works well, though. I always figured that a small ghettoized group of people who needed fertility and power to keep going would have discovered something about genetics long ago, especially given the genetic disorder of Squibness. They'd have an incentive to prevent that. There's certainly one book on genealogy that we know of; at some point, you'd think anyone keeping a familial record would notice that hair and eye color might run in families and go on from there to measure how magic was inherited. But apparently Rowling's wizards have never thought of this.
You know, he could have pursued Tonks just to sleep with her and now just not want to be tied down and hate kids and he'd still be the only adult in the Potterverse smart enough to actually want to be part of the resistance against Voldemort here.
He gets full marks for wanting to try to fight Voldie, at least.
Remus' marriage comes across as one big mistake (of which Tonks is clueless)
That tells you something about the communication between them, doesn't it? Remus is miserable and Tonks is radiant.
except for his liking having a baby.
I am convinced beyond words that Remus knocked her up and married her because it was the honorable thing to do.
In the end his last appearance is where he's happily ditched Tonks again and is with Sirius. Hurray!
And looking happy, IIRC.
You know, if Rowling was trying to convince us that Remus wasn't gay, she went about it all wrong.
all the alleged "juicy" stuff is in the past. Harry and the Trio have no plan, no real mystery to solve. It all just drops into their laps. So the only way they figure out stuff is to have it come to them via infodumps--so a clue about where a Horcrux might as well be another stupid story about Dumbledore's past that has no bearing on anything whatsoever.
I'm sorry to say that that makes a great deal of sense.
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Not Rowling, that's for damned sure. Drives me mad, it does.
Everybody at the Ministry's just happily going along with this "stealing magic" idea even though no, it really doesn't make sense (and when Ron says something doesn't make sense it must be really obvious it doesn't make sense).
I think that Rowling's mirroring the illogical claims against the Jews in pre-war Germany.
It's not an idea that works well, though. I always figured that a small ghettoized group of people who needed fertility and power to keep going would have discovered something about genetics long ago, especially given the genetic disorder of Squibness. They'd have an incentive to prevent that. There's certainly one book on genealogy that we know of; at some point, you'd think anyone keeping a familial record would notice that hair and eye color might run in families and go on from there to measure how magic was inherited. But apparently Rowling's wizards have never thought of this.
You know, he could have pursued Tonks just to sleep with her and now just not want to be tied down and hate kids and he'd still be the only adult in the Potterverse smart enough to actually want to be part of the resistance against Voldemort here.
He gets full marks for wanting to try to fight Voldie, at least.
Remus' marriage comes across as one big mistake (of which Tonks is clueless)
That tells you something about the communication between them, doesn't it? Remus is miserable and Tonks is radiant.
except for his liking having a baby.
I am convinced beyond words that Remus knocked her up and married her because it was the honorable thing to do.
In the end his last appearance is where he's happily ditched Tonks again and is with Sirius. Hurray!
And looking happy, IIRC.
You know, if Rowling was trying to convince us that Remus wasn't gay, she went about it all wrong.
all the alleged "juicy" stuff is in the past. Harry and the Trio have no plan, no real mystery to solve. It all just drops into their laps. So the only way they figure out stuff is to have it come to them via infodumps--so a clue about where a Horcrux might as well be another stupid story about Dumbledore's past that has no bearing on anything whatsoever.
I'm sorry to say that that makes a great deal of sense.