Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 57184

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "karmakaze_kk" <sarudy at y...> 
wrote:

> Harry may not think all rules are pointless, but he does seem to 
think they don't apply to him.  Sneaking out to stop Quirrell, while 
heroic, was against all sort of rules.  (And, I should point out, put 
the stone in far more jeapardy than if he had simply stayed in the 
dorms as instructed.)>

You mean, Harry put the stone in more jeopardy than if he had allowed 
Voldemort to possibly get his body back and the stone to boot, thus 
achieving immortality?  
 
> He works with Hermione to create a polyjuice potion (which they are 
not allowed to make) using a book from the library (which they were 
not allowed to have) to infiltrate Sytherine House (where they are not 
allowed to go), after drugging two members of Sytherin (which has to 
be some kind of assault).  And that was a stunt that didn't even pan 
out.>

How did it not pan out?  The Trio wanted to find out if Draco was 
involved with what was going on and they did.  The only one who really 
suffered there was Hermione, who became Cat Girl for a while.
  
> Harry always thinks he has the best and most urgent reasons to break 
the rules, but he does break them left and right.  It's an attitude 
that says "I think I know what is important better than the people who 
make the rules", which qualifies as "disregard" for me.>

I agree with you that Harry does indeed have a disregard for rules, 
but I have to support him in his breaking them.  Harry is a part of 
something that the other students (and staff members too, for the most 
part) don't have to deal with.  Someone is always after Harry, whether 
it is Voldemort himself, Dementors, the media, or annoying students.  
He is "Famous Harry Potter" and he always will be.  It is quite a 
cross to bear, especially for a kid who wants nothing more than to fit 
in, have friends and a family of his own.  Even Harry knows he has a 
knack for attracting trouble - it's out of his hands.

I also believe that Harry is possibly the most powerful wizard of all 
the students at Hogwarts.  I am not saying that I want to see Harry 
continue to break rules as he pleases, but I do think that Harry can 
handle what other students cannot.  Hogwarts has rules just like all 
schools and those rules make sense.  In Harry's position, though, 
sometimes those rules must be pushed aside.

I am suddenly thinking of Harry as the Buffy of Hogwarts, but that 
could be because I just watched the third to last episode and found it 
as disturbing as it was last week.

--jenny from ravenclaw *************