Harry's behavior was Re: Riddle's information re:

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 83897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" 
<jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" 
<stevejjen at e...> 
> <snip>
> He [DD]
> > doesn't want another Tom Riddle on his hands, in other 
words, a 
> > bitter, manipulative, revenge-seeking adolescent who makes 
his 
> > choices from blind rage more than anything else.
> 
> Laura:
> 
> Well, he sure succeeded, didn't he?  Harry doesn't have the 
> manipulation thing down but the rest of it sounds unpleasantly 
> familiar...

It's Harry at the beginning of OOP, when he doesn't understand 
what's going on. But when he's finally told, he's not bitter at the 
whole world, only Snape. He's not plotting to kill the Dursleys or 
turn a monster loose on Hogwarts.

 I think that part of Dumbledore's plan succeeded, though not as 
well as Dumbledore might have hoped. And really, suppose that 
Dumbledore had spilled all the beans at the beginning of OOP. 
Voldemort would have learned all he needed to know about the 
Prophecy, and also, perhaps, been able to breach Fideliius 
through the link with Harry's mind. Then he would have attacked 
the Order. And who's to say that Sirius would have survived?

Pippin