OOP - Harry and his attitude - Next two books

[lhunneb]

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I've been reading a lot of people being upset about Harry's attitude 
in OoP - so whiny and angry.  I think that JKR is taking us through 
the process of Harry's growing into a man.  When we met him, he was 
still wide-eyed and still quite retiring, from years of having been 
treated like a nothing. 

Now that he has had personal successes and is getting a sense of his 
own power, he is also in the middle of teenage puberty.  He is 
handling hormones, fame, stress and responsibility all at once and is 
being tempted by the darker side of magic.  The way that's easy as 
opposed to the way that's right.

I believe that this is the struggle that Harry will go through in the 
last two books.  Learning that revenge is a dreadful reason to do 
anything, including fight evil.  All the negative or painful feelings 
in his life, (Draco's cruelty, Snape's unjust nastiness, bating by 
Dursleys or anguish over the death of loved ones), are not a good 
justifications for cruelty, pettiness or reckless use of power.  

I believe that Harry will learn that the struggle is not for his 
life, or the life of Voldemort, but really for Harry's own soul.  
Once he wins that battle, he will be able to use the "power that the 
Dark Lord hath not" to easily defeat Voldemort.