does harry potter grieve you?

[Guest guest]

I do love the Harry Potter books, but many parts of them just make my heart

ache. The parts where he finds out about his real parents, where he feels

connected to them and it gives him a sense of self-esteem and feeling loved even

though he never knew them. When he finds out his mother sacrificed her life to

save him and that keeps him safe later in life (magically of course). And so

many say admiringly to him...oh you remind me of your mother or your father in

some incredibly complimentary way.

And me...well my nada's unstable and my fada's a white collar sociopath. And

I'm not adopted, though I used to pray that I was or at the very least that my

nada cheated. Most of the time I try to shut it out of my mind, but sometimes

it really gets to me that I don't feel a sense of heritage or family pride. I

can find some good things about my grandparents and I try to focus on that

but...it's not the same. When you wish your parents weren't your parents isn't

that like wishing yourself out of existence?

Does anybody relate to this? If you do have you find any way to deal with it?

Is there ever a way to not feel pain when you think of your roots?

julie