Annoyed with Harry, etc. **Spoilers**

[fordy_the_hobbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 63127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/24/2003 2:05:41 PM Central Standard Time, 
> anandini77 at h... writes:
> 
> > Was ANYONE else annoyed with Harry? I still have 100% confidence 
in 
> > Dumbledore ... and I feel sort of agitated whenever people blame 
him 
> > or accuse him of things ... I still see him as the unfallible 
paragon 
> > of goodness. I hope Harry apologizes for his behavior in Book 6, 
and 
> > regains his admiration of Dumbledore.
> > 
> 
> Nope. By the end of the Chapter 1, I was as angry as Harry.   I was 
glad that 
> he finally blew his top at Dumbledore. He's gotten nothing but half-
truths 
> for 5 years. Dumbledore knows from the prophecy that Harry was the 
one chosen as 
> the only means to defeat Voldemort. Yet Harry is told nothing. Its 
HIS life 
> that's at risk, he's the one with the homicidal maniac bent on 
world 
> dominination on his back.  If he was capable of shouldering a grown 
wizards burden when 
> he was 14 then why isn't allowed to know what is happening after he 
foils 
> Voldemort again.   Even Dumbledore knew that he (Dumbledore) had 
erred in keeping 
> it all from Harry.  

I agree; during the second part of the book, Harry seems to become 
increasingly unintelligent; even though he knows he is too weak to 
keep Voldemort out of his mind, he is intent on discovering the plans 
of Dumbledore and the OOP (has he never read any Muggle spy novels?) 
and then forgets about the one thing that could have saved Sirius and 
prevented his trip to London, the mirror. Maybe his mind was addled 
by Voldemort and/or just by other pressures, but he does seem 
spectacularly unthinking, particularly in hiding his thoughts from 
his best friends; if he had told Hermione more about either subject, 
surely she would have noticed and pointed out what to do.

Peter