OOP: Questions for JKR

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 63692

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "m.steinberger" <steinber at z...> 
wrote:
 
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> 1. How could Harry come out of eleven years at the Dursleys a sweet 
kid, and then turn sour in four years at Hogwarts? What went right 
back then that went wrong since we've known him?

He is in the puberty.
> 
> 2. How could James be a bully at fifteen and a model Head Boy at 
seventeen?

Because James was with 15 in the puberty, too. And because he grew up 
later. People can change, especially if they are young.
> 
> 3. How could Dumbledore encourage Harry to hero-worship James for 
the past four years if James was such a creep? Dumbledore was always 
saying things like "Your father would be proud of you."

Because James was  a brave man, who fought an evil and powerful 
wizzard. He was obviously not a saint, but that doesn't make him a 
devil either. 
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> 4. Why does the Ministry let people in so easily? (I'm referring to 
the midnight run at the end of the book, of course.)

That I didn't understand, too.
> 
> 5. *my most important question* Why was Dumbledore afraid of 
Voldemort getting the first prophecy? What use could Voldemort gain 
from the second half of the prophecy that he didn't already have from 
the first half? (It's clear why Voldemort *wanted* the second half - 
because *he* didn't know that it was unhelpful. But Dumbledore should 
have known.)

There was the part that Harry (or Neville) has powers Voldemort 
doesn't know about. And that is the part of the prophecy, Voldemort 
doesn't know. So it is not quite unimportant
 
> 
> 7. Now that Black and James have been shown to be as bad as Snape 
(or worse), most of the members of the Order no longer look much 
better than the average Death Eater. In what way are people like 
Black, James, Snape (he *is* a member), Moody and Mundungus better 
than Malfoy Sr or Pettigrew?  

I really think there is a difference between James and Sirius 
behaviour towards Snape and killing countless people or driving the 
Longbottoms into insanity. The main difference is IMO, that things 
like the prank or the pensieve scene are probably among the worst 
things, James and Sirius have ever done, while torturing the Muggles 
at the Quidditch-WC is by far not the worst thing, the DE did.
 
Hickengruendler