[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF- Harry's Dream about Riddle House

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 76883


  From: Wanda Sherratt 

   <<snip>He lies without any hesitation, and to anyone, and on subjects of no importance whatsoever. It's practically his default setting.  He's often "angry" when he does it, too, especially when he's lying to his friends, and that seems to be presented as a good enough reason.  It's one of the reasons I didn't like Harry in this book; not just the incessant screaming fits and sulks, but his lying and laziness are moral flaws that seemed to suddenly come out of nowhere.

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  Just sounds like a normal teenager to me :)

  Seriously, his behaviour is fairly typical of someone in the awkward inbetween stage of development - not quite adult enough to be taken seriously by the adult community, still being coddled and condescended to, but expected to start behaving in an appropriately adult manner without any of the benefits (or responsibilities).  Not one thing or another, and not coping too well.

  Harry is also reflecting the adults around him.  Everywhere he turns, he finds he has been lied to, things have been kept from him 'for his own good' or 'until the right time', people take out their own anger and insecurities on him for no reason he can see, people don't trust him, and he is finding different, hidden aspects of people that means he sees them in a new light, usually at odds with his established view of them. 

  There is also the fact he could well become the salvation or destruction of both the WW and the mundane world, and has no idea how, that he has to come to terms with.

  All this, and raging hormones, too.


  Dawn 




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