See, that's tricky. It's hard to say they didn't have any love. "Love" is a damn hard word to define, and I don't think it's fair to say, point blank, that the entire society lacks love for parents. Maybe there isn't love there, but I've always been uncomfortable with the idea that we can decide completely that there isn't.

Maybe as far as the child (and his society) is concerned, he does love his mother. Maybe they just have really different definitions than we do. Even if the love is different, can we say it doesn't exist, when it might? (Or does that even matter to the discussion? I don't know. I just wanted to bring it up. I know I mentioned it briefly in an earlier comment.)


- Becker, Slytherin