[HPforGrownups] Re: Why to Like and Not Like OoP

[Melanie Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 70808

Harry doesn't fit anymore with the comforting image he 
generally was giving us previously. Now, he's irritating, he is not 
a good poor little boy anymore, he doesn't behave like a boy scout, 
he's suffering, he makes the others suffer too: he's disturbing. 
Some of us don't recognize the icon anymore. Should JKR have written 
him in a consensual way? I'm not sure it would have been such a good 
thing.
And I'm glad Harry has defects, I'm glad he's sometimes unbearable, 
I'm glad he's weak. I'm glad he's not what we expected him to be.
And to finish this post, I would like to say I'm glad you all are 
here, and I hope you enjoy this group as much as I do… whatever you 
feel about OoP and Harry.

Amicalement,

Iris

 
Hey Iris...I was just thinking that is my mom's name...lol...Okay random I do have a point..
 
I want you all to think back to when you were a teenager?  15 is one of the hardest years I think I ever had in my life.  I was very cruel.  I yelled a lot.  I did not think anyone cared about me.  I felt alone.  I felt like everyone was out to get me.  That everyone secretly hated me even my friends.  I closed off people who cared about me....I was highly egocentric.  I may be exaggerating a little...but the point is as an adult I realize how I was.   
 
Doesn't that sound a bit like a little boy wizard we all know?  I mean their is not one person in this room who can tell me they have never gone through a point in their life where they were jsut plain angry.  I know that we all have if we are honest with ourselves.  This was Harry's year to get angry.  To me it makes it more realistic.  And lets face it, Harry has a right to be angry...on many levels.  And it's not like the people in his life are not hotheaded.  I mean almost all of the Harry Potter adults get things done, express their feeling through anger.  The only exceptions that I can see are Arthur and Remus.  
 
If people are annoyed about the way harry was acting...I would like them to take a trip down to their local high school and watch soem of the 15 year old boys there.  Compared to the ones that I tutored this past school year, Harry is an absolute angel.  
 
~Melanie


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