Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

pegruppel pegruppel at yahoo.com
Wed May 7 13:19:17 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 57213

Jenny wrote:

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.


Me:

I second all of what Jenny said.  

The curse that failed has changed Harry in ways that I think we're 
only starting to see in the books.  In an extraordinary place and 
time, people, even those we think of as "kids," need to be 
extraordinary.  The past, present, and future of the WW, and probably 
the Muggle world, depend on a kid with a funny scar on his head.

Peg






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