[HPforGrownups] Harry's CAN'T be the loner

[Rebecca Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 12208

**** I still CAN'T see Harry as a loner in the long run!!! ::sigh::****

Hedwig wrote:

"Hasn't he spent all his life alone? Wouldn't he be used to it by now?"

And I reply:

    He hasn't spent ALL of his life alone.  I think these four years in
Hogwarts don't qualify as alone.  And I think he's rather comfortable in the
graces of Ron and Hermione, and is enjoying it, so he wouldn't be able to
shun himself from the world completely without someone bringing him back.

Jim wrote:

"Harry isn't naturally a loner, we agree on that; but his experiences
will cost him very deeply.  He is going to suffer; he's going to watch
good people die; he's going to watch people he loves die, some of them
horribly.  He's likely to be afraid to love anyone because of the
losses he's been through. He can't risk it.  It will take him time to
sort out what's happened to him.  I believe the trials he's faced so
far, including the graveyard, are nothing compared to what he's going
to go through. He may be getting stronger emotionally, but he's going
to need it all and then some."

    And I reply:

    Do you really think that people will *let* Harry be alone after all of
the terrible things that are bound to happen to him?   Do you really think
he'll truely *want* to be left alone?  Even though Harry might shun people
in the beginning, I highly doubt he can keep himself isolated for long.  He
needs the support.  I mean, we all know he's going to be considerably
traumatized by the end of the seventh book, what with so many people losing
their lives, but I believe his character has enough determination to survive
emotionally and will be able to welcome people's comfort.  He can't be a
loner, because there will always be someone, either Ron, Hermione, Mrs.
Weasley, Sirius, or Dumbledore, to comfort him and drag him, if necessary,
back to reality.  I can't see...alone.  He deserves more.