[HPforGrownups] Harry the Persecuted

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32257

At 9:18 PM +0000 12/27/01, jenny_ravenclaw wrote:
>
>I think Harry has many happy times at Hogwarts and that he is well
>loved by many in the wizarding community (the Weasleys, his friends,
>Sirius, Hagrid and more).  I do see though, a growing sense of
>isolation in Harry that I believe will play a bigger part in OoP. 
>But do I think he is constantly persecuted and unhappy?  I don't know.
>What do you all think?

Harry is definately abused/neglected by the Dursleys.  Child abuse is 
child abuse no matter how you slice it.  And I think it does affect 
him; he carries enough bitterness about them for the Hufflepuffs to 
have noticed it in CoS.

However, having said that, he seems to be resilient enough to find 
happiness where he can even when he's with the Dursleys, and once 
he's at Hogwarts he seems to be happy more often than not, even with 
the whole constantly-being-in-danger thing.

Unlike Riddle/Voldemort, who has let his abandonment by his father 
and his tought childhood inthe orphanage become hatred for all the 
Muggle world and the Muggle-born wizards, Harry seems to only hate 
the Dursleys themselves, the actual sources of the abuse he's 
suffered.  To use the pop-psychology terms, Voldemort has accepted 
the victim role, while Harry is a survivor.  Harry has chosen (ooh, 
there's that word again!) not to let it poison his life.


Random thought: I wonder if the Malfoys know that Voldemort is a 
half-blood? Would it affect Draco's view of him if he knew?

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