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#HPChapteraDay Day 37 #BeingDeserving 4/4

If you've read "The Casual Vacancy," you will know that J. K. Rowling is very interested in the topic of requiring those living in poverty to prove their worthiness of charity. So I think this chapter is an early example of her exploring this topic, and displaying her feelings about it.

It is not any person's place to judge whether another person is deserving of basic decency and charity.

#HPChapteraDay Day 37: #BeingDeserving 3/4

But the point of a charity is that you are not supposed to require that the person to whom you are being charitable prove their worthiness of such charity. If you require this, that makes it more of a reward than actual charity.

This is like many of the arguments in the US re: individuals receiving government assistance and food stamps. Many assume they're lazy and therefore don't deserve charity.

#HPChapteraDay Day 37: #BeingDeserving 2/4

Specifically, being deserving of charity.

Aunt Marge brings up topics that indicate she is likely a believer in eugenics. She talks about "breeding" and how you have to maintain the purity of blood. She compares the breeding of her dogs to Harry's breeding and suggests that his parents were alcoholics who deserved to die.

Essentially, she is saying that Harry does not deserve the Dursley's charity.

#HPChapteraDay Day 37: #Sincerity 1/4

Okay, I'm going to do something I've never done before and go a bit rogue here. I don't really think this theme fits with this chapter, so I'm going to address another one that I think is really relevant to this chapter in my next couple posts: #BeingDeserving