Angry Harry in HBP?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 119852


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> Alla:
> 
> Could you please clarify? Which reasons that got Harry upset did 
you 
> consider to be not logical or understandable? Because I found all 
of 
> them to be logical and understandable.
> 
> 

I'm not Javalorum, obviously, but I'll take a stab at it.  I think 
what Java is trying to say is that it isn't that Harry being angry at 
events is unbelievable, it's that the events *themselves* are 
unbelievable.  That is it stretches credulity to think that 
Dumbledore would be *that* stupid, that McGonagall would be *that* 
ham-handed and unsympathetic, etc.  The whole thing smells of plot 
device.  In order to have Harry become progressively angrier to the 
point of breakdown, JKR had to have the characters around Harry 
behave in incredibly stupid ways that are not in keeping with how 
they've been portrayed in previous books.


I think this relates to what a lot of people said when they first 
read OOTP, i.e. that it seemed more like fanfiction than canon.  Many 
of the characters around Harry seem off kilter and slightly bizarre, 
apparently because JKR wanted Harry to reach breakdown point and had 
to do wierd things with the characters in order to achieve that.

My take, anyway.

Lupinlore