Harry enjoying his friends pain (was: Harry's disposition)

[jjjjjuliep]

No: HPFGUIDX 94756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:

> Yes, indeed.  And I also have to wonder about what Dumbledore said,
> about Voldemort's great talent for spreading discord and enmity,
> because Harry is cetainly not the only one to go all fratchety in 
> this book (though he does have the best excuse IMO).  I'm not 
> asserting that Voldemort is magically affecting their tempers; it
> could be just the stress and worry he causes along with the ripple
> effect everyone's responses have on each other.  Things are going
> to get even worse, so they'll *all* have to learn to master
> themselves.

And the most dangerous thing is that Voldemort doesn't have to 
magically affect their tempers (or their emotions) in order to 
disrupt any organized defenses against them--they are all fully 
capable of doing that themselves.  To me, the truly dangerous thing 
is not just that the stress and worry about Voldemort's presence and 
the ripple effect and widens already existing cracks, but that it can 
cause fractures in formerly smooth surfaces.  

I'm going to be especially interested in how Snape handles this 
pressure; in some ways I think he's the counterpoint to Harry, and 
the each function as a way for the other to see what would happen if 
they made different choices.

jujube (who will stop here on that last point since although she's 
trying to get up to speed on things is also not sure if she's 
retreading old ground)