OotP Spoiler-of course

[Christi]

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There is no way that I am going to catch up on reading all these 
posts today, so I am just going to post this. I am heartily sorry 
for any redundancy. Here are my random thoughts.


1)It struck my at the end of the book that Kreacher sounds a lot 
like creature, and to me he resembeled humans far less than Dobby. 
Just a thought.....


2)Just what is up with Neville's mother and gum wrappers? IMHO she 
is trying to communicate something, but for the life of me I cannot 
determine what. This struck me as something that's going to have to 
come in later.

3)It seemed to me that Harry's anger is controlling him and leading 
him to make terrible mistakes. At the end of the book he seemed to 
be transferring his feelings of guilt into feelings of hatred of 
Snape, which would feel like a much 'safer' emotion to his psyche. 
This makes me think that the beginning of book six is show Harry 
having some truly awful realisations. He will most likely experience 
another wave of guilt because a) his parents dies because of a 
prophesy about him and b) if he had opened that present from Sirius 
he would might have been able to contact Sirius and avoid the whole 
MoM debacle. Sirius may have also had his feelings hurt because 
Harry never used the mirror, and Harry's last discussion with Sirius 
involved an acusation. Poor Harry. My hope for book six is that 
Harry learns to channel his anger into something productive. If not 
I'm afraid he's in for more devastating mistakes. 

4)The end of the book was oddly uplifting despite the heavy 
atmosphere. Sirius had clearly been missing James badly and was 
trying to style Harry as James Jr. Now at least they're 
reunited 'beyond the veil'. Beyond that the ministry now 
acknowledges Voldemort's return, which made the Ministry show-down 
necessary. 

5)From the pensieve scene it seems that Harry has more of Lily's 
personality than James';however James (most likely) did not spend 
the vast majority of his childhood being mercilessly bullied. To be 
quite honest we saw Harry act out the personality traits that Snape 
has always accused him of having (arrogance, sense of entitlement, 
disdain of authority, hero complex, headstrong, ect.) Most of this 
stems from Hary having a particularly difficult adolescence. Most 
kids go through a nasty angry stage at this time, but it's generally 
directed at their parents (or parent figures). Harry doesn't really 
have this outlet so he's taking it out on the world. Understandable, 
but not at all pleasant. I hope that Harry gets through this stage 
to gain true maturity rather than the sort that has been forced upon 
him too early. I've rambled on, but is it possibly that Harry has 
more of James' personality than we know? How well did James mature? 
He must if gotten over his git stage to some extent if he got Lily 
to consider him husband material.



And now some questions:

1)What was the "worse than death" thing thay Dumbledore wishes for 
Voldemort?

2)Are the OoP still going to use 12 Grimmaude Place for they're 
Headquarters? Will Belletrix LeStrange show up (she is family)? 
Who's going to inherit the house?

3)What are they going to do about Kreacher?

4)Has Harry gotten his broom back?

5)Will Harry qualify to continue in Potions and otherwise qualify 
for Auror training?

6)What is the Prefect/Headboy process? How did James manage to 
become Head Boy? 

7)What were the other memories Snape wanted to hide from Harry? Did 
James proceed to remove Snape's underpants? (I doubt these will be 
answered in anything other than fanfic)

8)How did James and Lily end up married any way.

I have many more, but I'm in too much of a post-Ootp funk to express 
them.



Christi T.