[HPforGrownups] Themes in OotP (was Re: Angry Harry in HBP?)

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 119892


--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > SSSusan:
> 
> snip.
> 
> 
> I know it's fiction and JKR wrote it the way she
> wanted to write it, 
> but I'm getting back to the question which was
> raised by HunterGreen 
> as to whether it was *believable* that so many
> adults would have 
> failed Harry in this way.  As she said, "the whole
> situation was 
> horrifically mismanaged" and I agree with that
> assessment.


I don't really have a problem with it.  They could not
tell Harry anything or aknowledge to him that anything
was up for fear Voldemort would find out.

Certainly some of these adults could have offered
emotional support but I find it unlikely that he wold
have accepted it.  Also I find it likely they were
trying to make Harry seem less important so that the
DEs would not know how key he was.  

Also, they aren't his parents.  Sirius had a
responsibility to Harry.  The others are (former)
teachers and friends parents and the like.  They had
their own reason for keeping quiet (Molly trying to
protect, even if misguided, is completely in
character).

Lastly, these people were members of the Order and had
that responsibility too.  Although Harry's emotional
health is important, it does not outstrip the safety
of the WW.  They were keeping him safe as best they
could and keeping it a secret from him to protect the
rest of the world.

Harry is not 9 years old. He should have the brains to
realize that there are *reasons* for him being kept in
the dark, especially by a number of people he's known
and trusted for some time.  If he wants to be involved
in all this (well, he's involved whether he wants to
be or not, but he wanted to be) then he should
understand that he doesn't get to have it all his way.
 He should try to learn Occlumency and know that there
was a reason he was being taught.  Harry is very much
in the mindset of "if I don't know then it doesn't
count."  The others are adults and well past that. 
You can bet that each of them knows there are things
they are being kept in the dark about and knows there
are reason for it even if they don't know those
reasons.

The facts remain simple to me.  Telling Harry anything
could let it get back to Voldemort and that was too
great a risk, in Dumbledore's estimation.  I may not
agree with his thinking, but I understand it.  Harry
didn't want emotional support (though he needed it),
he wanted information.  Ron and Hermione tried talking
to him, but he just kept blowing up at them whenever
they tried to empathize or explain.


Rebecca

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