Harry's Temper Was Re: Feelings on OoP

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No: HPFGUIDX 80378

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "boyd_smythe" 
<boyd.t.smythe at f...> wrote:

> No one in positions of power ever defended him as much as they 
could have, and authority figures, in general, have been colossal 
failures 
> to Harry: the MoM, aurors, teachers, the OoP, even Dumbledore, who 
> coddles him and hides the truth continually. Harry has literally 
had 
> to take care of himself against all of them.

Well this is in part part of the whole kid genre.  Adults have to be 
taken out of the loop.  Though generally the good ones aren't quite 
so stupid.  

Leaving Harry with Petunia may have protected his body but it was 
also very risky.  He could have come to Hogwarts bitter and hungry 
for a taste of the kind of power he so lacked at Privet Drive.  What 
would DD have done then? The prophecy didn't say who would win....  
It could well have been a battle over power not good v. evil.    


> So when will he finally get good and pissy about it? Why not yell 
at 
> Dumbledore, "Tell me everything!" The next time Snape messes with 
him, 
> why not say, "Go hang yourself with your grey underpants"? Why not 
> shout from the highest mountain that he doesn't care about any of 
them 
> any more? Why not yell at every wizard he sees for not protecting 
him 
> from the everyday cruelty of the Dursleys?

I have no idea.  I really don't. 

 He's angry.  Some say "finally" or "reasonably".  But when he does 
explode he doesn't get what he wants.  He gets the whole order before 
him.  He gets Sirius and Molly to tell him what he says he wants to 
know.  But when all is said and done he never asks them anything 
important.  

Like

1. Am I a weapon? 

2. Why me?  What is so special about me?  

3. Where is Voldemort or do you just not know?  Have any ideas what 
he is planning.  I think I should know since it might very well 
involve a plot to kill me!

4. Have I any hope of seeing an age where I can drink legally?

5. Why is DD avoiding me?  I didn't kill Cedric.  It wasn't my 
fault.  I only told the truth. Why is he mad at me?

Conviently Harry asks none of these sticky questions. It makes no 
sense to me that he's angry and wants desperately to know what is 
going on, but never actually demands the answers to his own internal 
musings and the causes of his explosions.

Golly