Am I the only one

[sienna291973]

No: HPFGUIDX 95761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" 
<sherriola at e...> wrote:

> If we can cut Harry some slack on his deplorable attitude in OOTP, 
saying he's 
> a teenager, he's been kept out of the loop, ... all the reasons 
why Harry was 
> such a pain for much of the book, I can also cut Molly some slack 
for her 
> attitudes. 

With the risk of going off-topic, I just wanted to respond to this 
part of your post.  Harry in OotP was suffering from post-traumatic 
stress disorder (the symptoms are quite well portrayed in the 
book).  It's really got very little to do with him being a teenager 
and more to do with his extraordinary experiences.  JKR has indeed 
done a good job of creating realistic characters, and I personally 
thought Harry's emotional outbursts were well and truly overdue.  He 
has lived under conditions that no child should ever have to.  
Anyone who expected him to continue to be the quiet-spoken, polite 
young man of the previous books was obviously not factoring in the 
extreme traumas he has suffered through.

If Molly is frightened of the war remember that Harry has *lived* 
the war for the last few years.  Every year at Hogwarts he's 
survived a potentially lethal battle.

I'll flip your point on it's head therefore and say that if we can 
understand Molly (who has had to deal with much less in recent years 
in my opinion) then we can definitely cut Harry some slack.

I guess in the end it depends on who you identify with but I believe 
Harry has far more excuses for bad behaviour than Molly does.

Sienna