Harry in NEWT Potions Class? (Was: Is Snape confident?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 87666

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> 
wrote:
> I agree that Harry is still a child - which is why I dislike the way
> Dumbledore tends to not do anything about it when he suspects Harry 
is about
> to do something ridiculously dangerous. Last time I said that 
someone said
> that since the prophecy only said that Harry could defeat Voldemort 
but not
> when he had to let him in case he succeeded in killing him and I 
didn't get
> a chance to reply. I strongly disagree with that - the prophecy 
says that
> Harry can kill Voldemort of Voldemort can kill him (if you 
interpret it that
> way and assume it's definitive truth, which personally I don't), 
the fact
> that it *doesn't* say when means that Dumbledore would be perfectly
> However, the fact that Harry is still a child is to me far more of 
a reason
> why Harry should be punished regardless of why he is breaking the 
rules. He
> isn't old enough yet (or at least he wasn't at the beginning of 
OoP, he
> *may* be developing the ability) to distinguish when he has a 
*good* reason
> to break the rules and when breaking the rules simply coincides 
with what he
> wants to do. By letting him get away with it so often Albus is 
deliberately
> or not giving Harry the impression that rules can be broken at will 
and you
> won't get punished for it, or at least you won't if you're Harry 
Potter. And
> worse he may well end up encouraging that idea in the heads of the 
rest of
> the students. I have no problem with Harry being punished despite 
the fact
> he had a good reason for doing the right thing. If I feel my 
government has
> passed a law which was wrong and chose to disobey it I would still 
expect to
> be punished for that - and it is right that I would be, if everyone
> disobeyed laws willy nilly just because they didn't like them the 
result
> would be anarchy. Being punished when we do something wrong for the 
right
> reasons is part of taking responsibility for our own actions. 
Frankly if
> Harry isn't willing to sit detention for breaking a rule in the 
cause of
> what is right, then he obviously doesn't feel strongly enough that 
what he's
> doing is right, Knowing that he will be punished for doing 
something might
> make him think a little harder before rushing in headlong every 
time.
> 
> K


I have a huge problem with Harry being punished when he is doing the 
right thing. 
Being punished for something wrong for the right reasons is one 
thing, but Harry was not doing anything wrong when fighting 
Voldemort - I would say he was breaking the wrong rules to do the 
right thing.


I would rather him not to be fighting and after OoP I agree that 
Dumbledore manipulates him shamelessly, but if someone was punishing 
me for tryign to save the world, I would not bother to try and save 
the world next time.

Alla