Jesus, I must've been extremely out of it, commenting like that!
I guess I owe a rational response: Maybe Aunt Marge is just a horrible, hateful old woman. But that's too easy, I think.
Heaven knows what she's been told about Harry's parentage. She seems the elitist sort that would take anyone but a 9-5 working, church-going, over-assertive person and label them "trash." I imagine she was told that James was some kind of vagrant. And what kind of woman doesn't shoot for a man richer and more respectable than her current place in life? Thus, Lily must be a nutter and a layabout as well, and with parentage like that, Harry is doomed to ineptitude. Not like her poor, put-upon Dudley!
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Date: 2009-10-27 01:11 am (UTC)I guess I owe a rational response: Maybe Aunt Marge is just a horrible, hateful old woman. But that's too easy, I think.
Heaven knows what she's been told about Harry's parentage. She seems the elitist sort that would take anyone but a 9-5 working, church-going, over-assertive person and label them "trash." I imagine she was told that James was some kind of vagrant. And what kind of woman doesn't shoot for a man richer and more respectable than her current place in life? Thus, Lily must be a nutter and a layabout as well, and with parentage like that, Harry is doomed to ineptitude. Not like her poor, put-upon Dudley!