Feelings on OoP - Neville, Ginny, and a little Harry

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 80104

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
 
> Damn, the boy is only human. Who wouldn't be furious after all that?
> Personally, I can't imagine Harry acting any other way. He left
> compeltely alone and unsupported, and the people he is counting on 
are
> actively working against him, compounded by being trapped with his
> hopelessly clueless and irrational relatives. Then at ever step of 
the
> way through out the whole school year, circumstances and people are
> conspiring against him, making his already miserable life a living
> hell. I mean, it makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
> 
> You say, how could he act that way, and I say, how could he 
possibly not?
> 
> Just a few thougths.
> 
> bboy_mn

Sorry about the major snipping.  I agree with what you say here, 
bboy_mn.  There is another thought here too.  Whenever Harry has 
witnessed something, or overheard something when he was alone, he 
always, ALWAYS, ran to Hermione and Ron and told them everything. 
(The only exception was Neville.)  Now here he is after all that 
happended to him in GoF, alone on Privet Drive.  Yet he still 
receives letters from H and R.  But, in these letters, H and R say 
that Dumbledore told them not to tell Harry anything.  Just another 
addition to the isolation Harry is feeling.  Being angry is not just 
the teen angst Harry is feeling which imo, is entirely keeping in 
character.

Harry has started to keep his own secrets now.  He is reluctant to 
share a lot with R and H because of the treatment he received from 
them over the summer.  And, I don't know how significant this is, but 
in the Forbidden Forest, didn't one of the centaurs say that Harry 
was nearly an adult?  (Sorry, no book quote here to back me up.)  
Despite the situation going on, I think that might have stuck in 
Harry's subconcious and I think we will see that, combined with 
whatever Harry has gleaned from DD and the others, to make him grow.  

I think we will still see a very angry and depressed Harry in book 6, 
but I believe here is where we will see JKR make Harry into the man 
he will become.  I don't think that Harry will die.  If he does, then 
even if he has killed LV, the Dark forces will be able to take over 
WW.

DD knows, as he witnessed the prophesy first hand, that Harry is the 
one to vanquish LV.  He cannot change that, so therefore, he leads 
Harry on his path to acquire the skills needed to reach that 
conclusion.  DD didn't count on loving Harry.  That was a consequence 
of his watching Harry so closely.  That love clouded his decisions.  
He knew there was a risk in loving the boy, yet he believed that he 
could still guide Harry where he needed to go.

Oh, I am getting a little too long winded...just wanted to add a 
little.

D - who knows there will be those who disagree, but that's what this 
forum is for, isn't it?  Have a go...but be kind.