Harry's CAN'T be the loner

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 12209

Rebecca:"Do you really think that people will *let* Harry be alone 
after all of  the terrible things that are bound to happen to him?"

Let won't have anything to do with it.  Harry will disappear for a 
period after the end of the War.

Rebecca:"Do you really think he'll truely *want* to be left alone?"

Yes, I do think Harry will 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."

Harry will be highly fractured. He needs  some kind of support, but  
not all the "support" people will want to heap on him. The way I 
envision it, Hermione jealously guards his whereabouts and leaves him 
alone.   It helps him to know she and Ron are around the corner if 
need be.

Rebecca:"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."

Determination will not shield him fully from what is to come. You 
mentioned Ron, Hermione, Mrs.Wealey, Sirius, and Dumbledore; suppose 
over half of them are now dead?

"Do you know what a friend is?" Harry said in a dead monotone. "A 
corpse. Ron. Sirius. Dumbledore. Ginny. They're all gone because of 
me. I watched some of them die. You know what Ginny's last words were? 
'I'm crying because I love you.'"

We agree he deserves more, and maybe he'll get it on the other side of 
this pain.

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 

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rebecca Boswell" <rboswell at m...> wrote:
> **** 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.