What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[marinafrants <rusalka@ix.netcom.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51481

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:
Amanda wrote (regarding Wolf's theory that Dumbledore sent Fawkes to 
Harry with the sword):

> All of this is personal supposition. Dumbledore does not have to 
be involved
> in this loop at all. We know next to nothing about the Hat. We 
don't know
> that Godric's sword hasn't been in it for a thousand years. We 
don't know
> that the Hat itself didn't say "take me with you," to Fawkes.
> 
> In addition, Dumbledore's "placing" the sword would obviate the 
most telling
> point of the book. Dumbledore identifies Harry's pulling out of 
the sword as
> the final indication that Harry does belong in Gryffindor. If 
Dumbledore
> "sent" it, this is overt manipulation. But Dumbledore does not 
say "I sent
> that because I knew you were a true Gryffindor," he says "Only a 
true
> Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat." Harry's choices 
indicate
> he is truly placed; the appearance of the sword confirms it, and 
Dumbledore
> interprets this to Harry as a confirmation by independent agencies 
(i.e., he
> does not put himself in the equation).

I'll toss in one more objection into the mix: if Dumbledore knew 
that Harry was going to need a sword and sent Fawkes to deliver it, 
then why was the Sorting Hat involved at all?  Why not just have 
Fawkes bring the sword?  The Hat itself didn't do anything in the 
Chamber.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com