Harry normal (Was: Re: The alternative way to the potions NEWT)

[EnsTren at aol.com]

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In a message dated 12/28/2003 7:36:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
greatraven at hotmail.com writes:
assuming you could get a kid like 
Harry to do extra homework! :-) Let's face it, he's only going to do 
that when he absolutely has to, judging by his behaviour in previous 
novels. He'd have the time off to go to the library, with one less 
classroom subject, but if he's anything like the kids I work with,
who 
are pretty normal, he'd waste most of his spare time
That, right there is my biggest issues with Harry Potter and the Harry Potter 
books.

I can say that I have talked to a child psycologist and she /Praises/ Rowling 
for making Harry act like a normal boy his age.  They goof off, they don't 
ask for help when they should, they get angry, they blame everyone but 
themselves.

This is great.  Except one thing.  Harry isn't normal a normal boy in a 
normal situation.  I'm not talking about being a wizard in a magic school.  I'm 
talking about the fact he's had his life threatened multipul times.

Book one, he finds out that Voldemort is alive, and can get supporters from 
outside world and infiltrate Hogwarts.

Book two, he finds out that Voldemort has people in high places supporting 
him even still.

So far that's three times Voldemort has come after him, once as a baby, and 
Harry messed him up then, then after the PS, obviously he's going to be angry 
about this.  You can say that the third time doesn't count, after all it was a 
memory only.

Book three, no voldie, but deep cover agent who possibly knows a disturbing 
bit about him and "his weaslies"

Book four, another undercover agent, and Voldemort comes back to life.

And of course book five.

Why doesn't he study?  Why doesn't he think?  Book one is a bit early, I 
admit, but after book four?  And the Patronus doesn't count, that was for the 
dementors, not voldemort.

he's not a normal boy, he's a boy that basically IS the front line.

Any thoughts?


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