People like your father -- or Voldemort -- they think they get it. Your father thought if he killed Cyrus, James and Grace would never forgive you, and would cast you out the way the Blacks had. Because HE was the sort of person who believed that the actions of one family member tarnished everyone with the same last name. Because HE would have held a grudge like that. The idea that James and Grace would say, 'that bastard took Cyrus away from us, but damned if we're going to let him take Sirius' -- that was beyond his capacity to imagine.
And so he died for nothing. And took your uncle with him. The one thing he thought he'd accomplish was beyond his power even when he picked up his wand.
I don't know if I'm making any sense here, but I think Harry's finding his way to this -- to the idea that you can defy people like Voldemort simply by refusing to be anything other than who you are.
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People like your father -- or Voldemort -- they think they get it. Your father thought if he killed Cyrus, James and Grace would never forgive you, and would cast you out the way the Blacks had. Because HE was the sort of person who believed that the actions of one family member tarnished everyone with the same last name. Because HE would have held a grudge like that. The idea that James and Grace would say, 'that bastard took Cyrus away from us, but damned if we're going to let him take Sirius' -- that was beyond his capacity to imagine.
And so he died for nothing. And took your uncle with him. The one thing he thought he'd accomplish was beyond his power even when he picked up his wand.
I don't know if I'm making any sense here, but I think Harry's finding his way to this -- to the idea that you can defy people like Voldemort simply by refusing to be anything other than who you are.