Annoyed with Harry [and Predictions] **Spoilers**

[emmamariebee]

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<snip from post> Brittney - you are the first person who seems to 
have picked up on what I was feeling during and after reading OoP. 
Although I don't like feeling this way (I adored Harry for his 
honest modesty and innocence and genuine affection for others) --- I 
thought Harry was annoyingly arrogant, bitter, jealous, and 
disrespectful in this book -- maybe that makes him more like the 
James we saw in the Pensieve. I hated the way he treated Ron, 
Hermione, and everyone ... especially Dumbledore. <end snip>

<snip from Milz's post> Of course. But Rowling wants to portray 
Harry as an adolescent and Harry is 15 and in "mid-adolescence"(ages 
14-17). Psycho-socially this period is characterized by conflicts 
with parents, the "testing of limits", increased peer influence, 
sexuality, and risk-taking behaviors. I'd say Harry is right on 
target! <end snip>.

Me:
And I don't think we've seen the last of it. If Harry gets over all 
of this by the next book, he'll hold the world's record for fastest 
progression through adolescence. Even with two books ahead, JKR has 
her work cut out for her giving Harry a (believable) transition into 
maturity, which will have to include developing characteristics such 
as:
1) tolerance for others' mistakes.
2) an acceptance that even the best of people are fallible, that the 
world is not divided between good people & death eaters.  This will 
involve coming to terms with Snape (maybe even Malfoy?) as a human 
being--never warming up to him perhaps, but accepting that he has 
valuable things to contribute to the world and that there are 
explanations for his hatefulness. 
2) the willingness to love wholeheartedly again despite the pain it 
will open him up to. [Non-Shippers can skip the next sentence.] I 
can see a long, involved process in which Harry discovers his 
feelings for Ginny, fights against them for fear of having to re-
experience the feelings of loss he is so familiar with now, and 
finally accepts that only real relatinoships with others (pain and 
all) make life worth living. 

So, myself, I'm braced for some more bratty Harry in Book 6, but am 
hoping to see progress by Book 7 or so. 

Em, who still cannot (I mean it) believe that JKR did that to Sirius