Annoyed with Harry

[Melinda Leydon]

No: HPFGUIDX 63569

Richelle:  I find it astonishing how many people are annoyed with Harry.
Have you ever
been fifteen (rhetorical question!)?  That alone can trigger a range of
emotions unparalleled.  Yes, he does scream and yell at Ron and Hermione
unnecessarily.  And the first time he does, he tries to apologize for it.
And they brush it off like he doesn't need to.  Imagine, for a moment, being
fifteen, fearing that horrible things are happening in your world, and being
forced to remain completely out of touch with reality for a month.  A month
to brew over it, to relive it, to imagine the worst.  I'd take it out on the
first person I ran into also.

ME:  Thank you Richelle!  I, too, am amazed at all the bratty Harry posts!!
My heart is breaking for this kid and I LOVED "Angry Harry".  Weren't there
a whole string of posts after GOF about how we hoped there would be some
fallout from the scene in the graveyard?  Harry hasn't had much experience
with any emotion aside from anger, of course that's how his feelings come
out!  That is the only emotion he ever got from the Dursleys.

To me, the anger seems so on target for that age in general!  I've got a 15
year old nephew who could easily go off over anything!!  Don't you remember
being a teenager?  The people who you went off on the most were you're own
family, constantly!.  Ron and Hermione are Harry's family, he lives with
them most of the year.  Of course he takes his anger out on them, he's
closed to them!  There is one scene (I don't have the book here) where he
says he doesn't even know why Hermione's statement was making him so angry.
(This was when she asked him to teach DADA).  I think it brings him back to
that graveyard and the anger that shoots out comes from his still suppressed
emotion there!  Plus all the hormones of being 15 and just getting your
first kiss, which again, went back to the scene in the graveyard!

I also think is anger at Dumbledore was fair.  Dumbledore should have given
him more information, even if not the whole truth.  It was Harry all these
things kept happening too.  Tell a teenager he has to do something without
any explanation as to why and see how much attention they pay to you!

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to keep up with the posts and have had to
start deleting some (my 3 kids are being ignored and my husband told me he
feels like a Harry Potter widow!).  It might be because I have 3 sons of my
own, but I have a tremendous soft spot for Harry and just want to pull him
out of that book and hold him, silly I know.  But I had to post and defend
him.

Melinda