Adults "failing" Harry (was: Themes in OotP)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 119972


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
<snip> 

>all of the adults stumbled badly in 
> OoP. But I think this was quite deliberate on JKR's part.  The 
reader 
> has to decide for him/herself whether it's believable that 
everyone 
> failed Harry to some extent so consistently throughout the book, 
> during the very year where things went so wrong with the Harry's 
> relations with the Ministry, with the changes that took place at 
> Hogwarts, etc.  
> 
> Marianne

Renee:
Adults have failed Harry before in various ways, though never as 
spectacularly as in OotP. But IMO the main difference between Book 5 
and the previous books is that 
1) Harry sees it more clearly now and
2) before OotP it was Harry who saved the day all the time, with the 
help of his friends. This time he's among the failures. A huge step 
towards becoming an adult.

Renee