Harry's fear (was: Emotion release)

[Melody <Malady579@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49367

Amy (who, in my opinion, deserves her own featherboa just for this
post) wrote:

> Another emotion that I feel is missing is fear.  The kind that Ron
> quite painfully felt in CoS when he followed the spiders with Harry
> Yes, Harry has been scared but too many things have been happening,
> distracting him from the type of fear that builds over time.  The
> feeling that something bad could happen at anytime, the fact he is
> going to die, the type of fear that would make even a reader change
> their underwear.  I hope in future books if and when Harry is
> captured he is made to wait in a closed off cell listening to the
> torture of his friends, knowing he is next.  Now that is fear.


Do you really think hearing torture will cause him to fear?  The
screams he hears under the dementors are pretty bad in themselves, and
he *does* fear them.  In fact, the whole point of the dementor part
was to see what Harry fears, and he fears fear.  Seems a person that
fears fear only has to overcome that fear to truly do amazing things.

Besides, Harry has seen his friend *die* so he has had the chance to
experience "you are next" fear.  After all, when he was staring down
Voldemort's wand in the graveyard, we are *told* that he knew he was
facing death.  So it seems to me, that Harry has faced death, felt
torture, and still did not fear Voldemort.  He stood his ground like a
true Gryffindor.

You know, funny thing about chivalry and bravery.  It is founded on
ideals and convinced in the notion that whatever happens, I am
vanquished by my choices.  Silly things like pain, discomfort, and
death do not matter.  Seems, Harry knows this and knows if he does not
stand his ground, he has lost.  Then I think we come to what Harry
truly fears...letting people down.


Melody