[HPforGrownups] Re: Am I the only one

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 95921

In a message dated 4/14/2004 1:57:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jmmears at comcast.net writes:
I disagree that Molly is dangerous to Harry.  As much as I love 
Sirius, he was wrong -- Harry still *is* a child as much as he 
doesn't want to believe it. He and Sirius would both have been 
better served to have followed Molly's (and Dumbledore's) advice, 
and perhaps Sirius would still be alive if they had.

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Sherrie here:

Harry is a SOLDIER, fighting a war against a horrific enemy.  He needs all 
the information he can get in order to complete his mission and come out of it 
(hopefully) alive and intact.  Giving him little snippets is as bad as telling 
Johnny Clem, "Oh, the Rebs are around here somewhere..."  Clem was 10 when he 
shot a Confederate officer at the Battle of Shiloh, earning him the nickname 
"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh".  William Black was a 12-year-old Yankee private 
when he was shot in the left arm.  I was just reading an 1860s newspaper article 
about a 13-year-old who'd lost a limb in battle, returning to Houston as a 
hero.

My rambling point is, when children are put into battle - and Harry is in the 
vanguard - heck, Harry IS the vanguard - they cease by default to be 
children.  Do you want to keep them alive?  Give them the tools they need - and give 
them the information they need.  Even Dumbledore admits that he was wrong to 
have withheld the information from Harry.  I still don't think he's told him 
everything - he's still hiding more than the story behind Snape's turning.  We'll 
have to see how dangerous it becomes for him to withhold whatever he's not 
telling.

Sherrie
(who apologizes for the historical references)
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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