Lord Harry

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 95521

Ellen:"> After yelling at his friends in chapter four, "Harry glared
at [Hermione], still breathing deeply, then turned away from them
again, pacing up and down." He then proceeded to "shoot" questions 
and "demand" answers while Ron and Hermione answered "at 
once", "hastily" and "nervously".
 
All this scene needed to copy a DE's interaction with Voldemort would 
have been to have Ron and Hermione kneel before Harry. Did Voldemort 
also transfer some of his thirst for power and warped leadership 
skills to Harry? He was a Voldy-in-Training."

But Harry's actions here resembled Voldemort's in only the most
superficial way - the underlying sociopathy that animates Voldemort
and his megalomania is completely absent in Harry. So is the abject
terror of the DE's.

Harry is so vulnerably human, but at bottom,, when some of his
horrific stress lifted, we see that he didn't stop being Harry.  The
capacity to love, to see others as human, too (a capacity which
Voldemort completely lacks) is the quality Harry has that Voldemort
never will.  At the end of the story, what starts Harry back on the
road to emortional health?  Compassion for one of his friends, Luna. 
How does he lead? With moral force (occasionally misdirected) and
positive reinforcement (the DA).  How did Voldemort comfort himself
after the beating he took at the MoM?

There's something else that the power to love gives Harry that I'm
afraid of - the power to sacrifice himself for the people he loves. 
Voldemort would never give himself up for his cause - it's all about
himself, anyway - but Harry could if it means saving his friends and
the wizard world from Voldemort.

Jim Ferer