Harry's Anger: LV v. Sirius

[annemehr <annemehr@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49064

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/31/02 5:29:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> huntleyl at m... writes:
> > he seems to have very
> > little rage at Voldie for his parents - at least nothing like he 
had for
> > Sirius
> 
> Does anyone else wonder why that is?  Harry isn't as angry at LV as 
he was at 
> Sirius.  Why?  I have a theory.  (The following will go on Harry's 
knowledge 
> during most of PoA.)  Harry is just as angry at LV as he is at 
Sirius, but 
> Sirius did one thing LV did not.  Betrayal.  Sirius betrayed Harry's 
parents. 

I completely agree with this post, and just want to add another 
thought: Harry's anger with Sirius was based on the past; his only 
issue with him was the betrayal of Harry's parents.  On the other 
hand, his battle with Voldemort is ongoing and involves trying to save 
his own life along with the whole wizarding world.  He is 
continually finding more reasons to fight him.  This is shown pretty 
well in the scene where Harry goes to bed after his experience in the 
pensieve:

"Lying in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate toward the 
people who had tortured Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom....He remembered the 
jeers of the crowd as Crouch's son and his companions had been dragged 
from the court by the dementors....He understood how they had 
felt....Then he rememberd the milk-white face of the screaming boy and 
realized with a jolt that he had died a year later....
     It was Voldemort, Harry thought, staring up at the canopy of his 
bed in the darkness, it all came back to Voldemort....He was the one 
who had torn these families apart, who had ruined all these lives...."

Harry can identify strongly with other peoples' suffering at the hands 
of Voldemort along with his own and that of his parents, and they all 
factor into his motivation to join the fight.  And whenever Harry 
comes face-to-face with Voldemort, his immediate concern is with 
survival and preventing fresh horrors.  So, I think Harry's anger for 
the sake of his parents is always there, but it exists along with many 
other concerns.

Annemehr
who is finding on this list that it is very difficult to express 
herself clearly and hopes this comes across alright!