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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 94766

> Del:
> > The only times Harry willfully hurt his friends and took some 
> > kind of pleasure or satisfaction in it is when he felt he was 
> > only punishing them, getting some kind of revenge on them. And 
> > that's a VERY human reaction, boy do I know about it :-) !! 
> > (Unless you mean I'm being possessed by an evil spirit ? ;-)
> 
> Annemehr:
> Yes, indeed.

Del :
For one fleeting moment, I wondered if you meant that yes indeed I'm 
being possessed by an evil spirit... 

Annemehr :
> 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.

Del :
I think one big problem is what Arthur (or was it Hagrid ? I don't 
have my books sorry) explained : in the first time of LV, you didn't 
know who you could trust anymore. And it's happening again. The Trio 
has been constantly facing cases of people not being who the Trio 
thought they were (Snape, Quirrell, Lockhart, Sirius, Wormtail, 
Moody, etc...) One thing they're learning fast is that they 
basically can't trust *anyone*. In CoS, they had doubts about 
Hagrid. In PoA and GoF, Harry discovered that even his two best 
friends can be "untrustworthy" at times. Up to OoP, the only one 
they all trusted completely was DD, but in OoP Harry can't even be 
sure of DD's intentions anymore. And Harry even reaches a point 
where he can't be sure of *himself* ! And trust is mightily 
important when you're working alongside someone else : we all know 
what happened because of the distrust between Harry and Snape.

> Annemehr
> who agrees with Del more often than not, and hopes she didn't press
> her argument too far in their last go-around

Del :
Nah, don't worry :-)
I'm feeling slightly uncomfortable in this thread though : I mean, 
I'm *defending* Harry !!! I never thought it would happen :-)

Del, who keeps surprising even herself :-)