Lord Harry

[bobbi_ma]

No: HPFGUIDX 95540

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

> The first scene at 12 Grimmauld Place gave me the creeps, too. 
Harry 
> was talking with Ron and Hermione in a cold, angry, detached tone 
> while Ron and Hermione answered his questions with fear and haste. 
> 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.

Oooh, interesting observation, I'd never thought of it like that. I 
think you've got a point -- there are obvious parallels there -- but 
he's been cooped up for so long, knowing nothing about a situation 
which largely revolves around him, while his friends seem (to him) to 
know everything, that his manner isn't all that surprising. He's 
unnecessarily sharp with them but he's worried about what the 
Ministry are going to do to him, too. And, as you say, when Fred and 
George appear they take him down a peg or two with no trouble. He's 
angry and scared and as a result he's acting like a prat.
But he is pretty nasty in book 5; I found myself really disliking him 
in bits -- that being one of them. Hopefully in book 6 he'll realise 
that alienating your friends by being an idiot isn't the best way to 
go!

Bobbi