Harry's Good Will?

[errolowl]

No: HPFGUIDX 43348

Sirius Kase wrote about the erosion of good will as far as Harry's 
concerned in the general WW:

>>But, there is no hard evidence that Harry is telling the truth.So 
it shouldn't be surprising that not all wizards think well of Harry.  
Power corrupts, ya know.  My contention is the group of wizards who 
have reservations about his character may be growing.  Some will 
believe him and Dumbledore, some will think badly of him, and a large 
group will just not know whom to trust.  It doesn't help that 
Dumbledore's heroic reputation was earned  over fifty years ago, and 
that he has a weird sense of humor and comes across as "barking mad" 
(i.e. crazy)
> 
> Harry's enemies are doing a great job of getting out the unfavorable
interpretation of the observable evidence.  Remember, Rita and the 
Malfoys have not been publicly discredited.  *We* know that they are 
baddies, but they are influential. <<

How true! And Goodness, It's not only the bad guys that are 
influential. The list of "good" wizards starting to have
serious reservations about Harry start with the Minister
..and
quite surely Amos Diggory? True, he doesn't seem to blame Harry
at the
end of GoF, but he was too shaken by the news to have really thought 
things through to himself. Mrs. Diggory accepted Harry's story
and Amos was still sobbing through the interview, going along with 
his wife's point of view
.but we've already seen that Amos
can't think straight where his son is concerned – and he
doesn't
even have a store of good will for Harry by now. I'd lay great
odds 
that Amos has resentment festering under his apparent acceptance, and 
that the slightest nudge would be enough for him to count Harry as a 
murderer. 

So, the minister of Magic and an influential member of the ministry 
already have no cause to like Harry, and it's going to damage his 
case. And in spite of all his annoyance with his fame, Harry's
going to take it pretty badly if he were to lose his position as the 
favorite son of the WW – that one thing that makes his life
bearable, that one thing that is so different from the way the 
Dursley's treated him
.If he were to go back to being treated 
like "something smelly the cat dragged in" by a whole
population, 
it's going to dent his resilience at the very least! And it seems 
almost inevitable by now



Errol.