Vengeance

[annemehr <annemehr@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51836

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

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> Harry has been 'offended', and has reasons to seek vengeance but the
> vengeance he does seek is very small compared to the offenses he has
> faced. He hit Draco with a soft mud ball not a brick, and he hit 
Goyle
> (or was it Crabbe) with a small stick not a club. This is 'payback',
> but it is extremely small payback and generally harmless. 
> 
> Again, Harry did not seek Draco out for the purpose of payback, but
> when the opportunity presented itself unsolicited, it was just too
> sweet to pass up. 

To bolster the argument here, I want to note that Harry was not merely 
taking an opportunity for a small bit of payback.  What he was doing 
was *stopping* an ongoing verbal attack by Malfoy on Ron and Ron's 
family.  We *never* see the Trio originating any attacks on the 
Anti-Trio (Malfoy, Crabbe & Goyle), just because they don't like them, 
or because "they deserve it".  HHR only do these things *in reaction* 
to the Anti-Trio's attacks, or to stop them.  And, come on, we don't 
expect HHR to be doormats, do we?


So he threw some mud at him, big deal, kids throw
> mud at each other all the time. That splat of mud was nothing 
compared
> to the calculated and unrelenting attacks by Draco.

I was unsure if by this statement, you meant Draco's verbal abuse of 
Ron outside the Shrieking Shack or everything Draco ever did since the 
 beginning of PS/SS.  Thus the reason for my reply above.

Annemehr
trying to forestall posts saying that Harry should not have taken even 
this little revenge via the mudballs...