Harry Living to be Harry

[kewiromeo at aol.com]

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Harry is a strange polar character. In PS/SS, his greatest ambition was to live up to the name that everyone has thought him to be. Now, the only thing he wanted in OOtP was that everyone would stop thinking of him some attentionworthy teenager. They dicredited him from the articles of Rita Skeeter. We will probably see her later in the books. She is pretty useful, I think she will go back to writing, it might not be all bad.

Once people know that Harry is telling the truth, he despises it. I myself am like that, I don't want to have the attention on me, but I don't want people thinking that I am the one thinking so highly of myself.

Harry doesn't have a good outlet for his frustration. Hiding in Privet Drive, sending encrypted messages with Hedwig, sitting in bushes trying to listen to the news. It's just been making things worse year after year. Now, he has no family at all, only the Order members who are looking out for him.

For the most part, Harry doesn't want to be himself. One of his happy moments was "I'm going to Hogwarts and I'm going to leave the Dursleys." Now, at times it's as if he never wanted to get that letter. Why does he have to be Harry Potter? It would have been much more relaxing to have been Neville Longbottom. (On a side note, Neville has a whole lot of family, Harry has none. This must be an issue with the Prophesy, as to why Harry and not Neville was attacked). He said it himself in GoF, what he wouldn't give to be sitting in the stands cheering Cedric along with the rest of the school. Why would be want to go through all this? Hermoine was a little forward with saying he has a "saving people" thing. Well damned if he ever wanted to save anyone, get put in that situation, half the time he himself doesn't want to be alive.

Dumbledore keeps saying that he has put up a battle agaist Voldermort that most Adult wizards never have to go through, or he has shouldered an adults battle and found himself even, blah blah blah. He has defied Voldermort 4 times already, and I believe that to most people this would cause severe psychological stress, and I wouldn't be surprised if he needed a Calming Draft 4 times a day the next year, and have Strengthening Potions to get him out of bed in the morning.

Tzvi of Brooklyn