Harry the child soldier (was : Am I the only one)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 95925


Sherrie (MadameSSnape) wrote :
> 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. 
(snip) 
> 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. 

Del :
I just answered a post from Sienna who said exactly the opposite, 
that Harry is *not* a soldier. I think this is very telling of both 
the readers' and the book characters' difficulty to deal with Harry. 
Harry is a child soldier, but those two terms can't be reconciled, 
not even by DD. So sometimes some people act towards him like he's 
just a kid (Molly), and sometimes some act like he's only a soldier 
(Snape ?). 

Del