[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: Dd's treatment to Harry and bondage issues

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 63300

 

Calimora wrote:
> Dumbledore has to accept Harry as an intelligent and independent 
> entity, something he could not do. 
 
Melody argued -
Um. I thought he already did that? I mean. Dumbledore always gives
Harry a choice and then leaves him *a lot* of maneuvering room to
accomplish his triumphs. Sure, Dumbledore *helps* Harry, but he in no
way it coddling him or treating him like a child when it comes to
letting him face a serious deadly creature like a basilisk.
  short lived. 

Now me -

But he is treating him like a child when he keeps information from him 'to
protect him'. Harry has a tendency to go off half-cocked and do stupid
things 9in my opinion) but in this book he really has little choice. how can
we expect him to make an informed decision when no one tells him what is
going on. Yes he should have kept on with the lessons with Snape even though
he didn't know how important they are, no he probably shouldn't have gone
running off to the Department of Mysteries without telling anyone, but he's
a 15 year old and 15 year olds resent being told to do things 'because I say
so' which is pretty much what Harry is told for the entire book. If someone
had said to him that Voldemort could try and manipulate him he'd have tried
harder at the lessons but all he knew was he was seeing things that
sometimes turned out to be helpful, so why stop the visions? If someone had
said there's something in the Department of Mysteries that Voldemort wants
very badly and he needs you to get it for him he'd at least have thought
twice before running off to the very place the death Eaters wanted him to go
 Albus is guilty of an 'I know best' attitude in respect of Harry and it was
responsible for a large chunk of the problems in this book.

K