Dan’s Reviews > No Mouth But Some Serpent's > Status Update

The abuse plot starts to unravel way earlier in the series than I remembered. Very glad, since this is one of the aspects I remember liking most about these books.

“If I were more like my brother, you would hate me. If I were not what I am, then you would not like me as well as you do.”

I don’t remember if this point gets brought up much in later books that deal explicitly with Harry’s childhood being abusive, but I REALLY hope it does. “No, my childhood wasn’t all bad because [tangental arguable benefit]” is the most typical abused-kid reaction there is.

Love the implication that adults being concerned about House rivalries is some peaked-in-high-school shit

Interesting that the Weasleys and Potters never met while they were all in the Order during the first war. I can’t recall if the author ever mentions the Order as having operated as isolated cells, which might explain that.