OOP: Re: Bad Harry? OotP Spoiler

[rlharalson]

No: HPFGUIDX 62920

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thebasketfairy" 
<thebasketfairy at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
> <meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chrissymckeen" 
> > <chrissymckeen at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > > What was up with Harry's anger? Before Sirius's death, he kept 
> > yelling at everyone. I was almost yelling at the book for Harry 
to 
> > take a 'chill pill'. Maybe it was Harry being age 15 or maybe it 
is 
> > the Dark Side coming out of him.>
> > 
> > <snip>

I think it really boils down to Harry being a 15 year old boy. I have 
said this in response to other posts, but I really think this is the 
jewel of the books. JKR has realistically matured him into a teenage 
boy. When my brother and I were 15 our parents split and then later 
in the year the man who had become a father figure passed away. I 
reacted with tears and turning to my mother for support, by brother 
was angry all the time. He constantly yelled at my mom, the innocent 
in all of it (like Ron and Hermione are) I think that is the way 15 
year old boys react to tragedy that they don't understand and to 
their lack of control over their environment. I got very frustrated 
at Harry's anger in the book, but without it I think perhaps I would 
have been thinking of him as too simple of a character. It gives him 
a brilliant realism.
Renee