JKR's Messages (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Thu Dec 30 16:24:14 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 120761


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hi, Susan! I think we are talking about some kind of "carmic 
payback" 
> again.
> 
> I think (and it is only my opinion) that JKR IS quite good at 
those,  but I don't think this situation was "carmic payback", 
because Harry  did not even think that he somehow DESERVED 
what he got. He did not  have a single thought (unless I don't 
remember this part in canon, of  course) that he was humiliated 
BECAUSE of past event. <

Pippin:

I don't have my books with me to check, but wasn't Harry sure, at 
the end of the chapter where he threw the firework, that Snape 
knew he had thrown it and was going to do something nasty to 
him in consequence? And that it proved to be quite as nasty as 
Harry feared?

Certainly Harry hasn't deliberately disrupted Snape's class 
again.

About Umbridge: Harry didn't *choose* to defy her by breaking 
the rules against shouting at teachers and speaking out of turn. 
He lost his temper and couldn't help himself. Some punishment 
was appropriate, IMO, both to teach Harry to control his temper 
and to uphold the right of all the teachers to maintain order in 
their classes. The quill was bang out of order, though.


Pippin











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