Harry's Popularity

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 84769

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sharon" wrote:...You've got 
Harry Potter, the kid who defeated the strongest evil wizard of the 
day, arriving at Hogwarts...You would think that he would have a 
flock of people all around him all the time at school.  But that's 
not the case...Anyone have any thoughts on why Harry isn't hero 
worshipped at school for his past achievement?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Because, as he modestly and adorably points out in SS, he's "...just 
Harry". He didn't actually *do* anything to defeat Voldemort before 
he arrived at Hogwarts; he simply "lived". In the first four books, 
he's a scrawny little four-eyed geek who keeps getting slapped upside 
the head by life. Then he adolesces, and it's not pretty.

The WW has been ripped off. They signed up for a bold, stalwart St. 
George of a Gryffindor. Instead they get this ratty looking kid in 
welfare glasses, Forrest Gump with a wand.

Not to mention the fact that people tried to suck up to him in the 
beginning and he blew them off.

--JDR