[HPforGrownups] Re: Against all odds, Harry isn't a mass murderer

[JessaDrow at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 56548

In a message dated 4/29/03 11:00:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fandulin at hotmail.com writes:

> I guess the best way I can explain the way Harry manages to come 
> out of his childhood unscathed, without resorting to reason number 
> two is this.  MOST kids would have been severely affected by all the 
> things that happened to him (heck, most adults would).  MOST kids 
> would not have made it to Hogwarts, and would probably have been 
> consigned to a sterile room with padded walls.  Harry is the 
> exception because he's the heroic archetype.  Granted, he's in it's 
> fledgeling form, but he's the literary figure that can rise above it 
> all because he has bigger fish to fry.  The Hero doesn't let spiders 
> in cupboards and schoolyard bullys get him down, because there is a 
> Voldemort waiting for him down the road.  The trials and tribulations 
> that he fights through to get there will make him capable of facing 
> him when that time comes.
> 

I think Harry is the exception because he has experienced love. When his 
mother sacrficed himself for her, that was the greatest gift, and it has to 
leave a mark, I think thats what kept him from going all insane, and 
murdering the Dursley's in their sleep.

~Faith~


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