Harry the Auror

[sachmet96]

No: HPFGUIDX 89197

Sue wrote:
> I have been following this thread and several posts have come up 
that 
> I have trouble with.  First of all, maybe I am naive, but I feel on 
a 
> very important level that JKR would not revolve an entire series 
> around a character who turns out to be evil.

sachmet96
I don't think Harry will turn out evil. I thinkg JRK just tries to 
show that he is not such a good person after all as he was painted to 
be.

Sue wrote:
  In the U.S. and 
> probably in other countries as well there are laws where 
retaliation, 
> even if it includes murder, are considered justified.

sachmet96
There are such laws but he tried to hurt not in self defence but 
intentionally, after all he 'followed' Bellatrix.
And even it was supported by the law (which I don't think so in this 
case as he clearly followed) one would expect that he shows at least 
a little more feeling for trying to hurt someone after he has cooled 
down and actually think about what he just did (use an Unforgivable). 
But he doesn't.

Sue wrote:
  Whether or not 
> this is moral could be debated forever, however, in the case of 
> Harry's attack on Belletrix, his actions may not be the highest 
moral 
> road but I think most of us have faced a time when our outrage at 
> another persons actions cause us to step over the line.  

sachmet96
I have been really angry lots of times so angry that I thought I 
could have killed the person but that never let me to actually attack 
somone intentionally with the intend of hurting them (let alone kill 
them). But Harry did just that.

Sue wrote:
> There are so many references to Harry's arrogance or lack of 
> extrordinary talent on this list that sometimes I feel like I am 
> reading a different series of books or just don't understand them 
in 
> the same way.  Dumbledore says at the end of OotP "...I have 
watched 
> you more closely than you can have imagined...I never dreamed that 
I 
> would have such a person on my hands....Young you might be, but you 
> had proved yourself exceptional." (American Ed. pg. 839)

sachmet96
I don't have the books right now but that exceptional could be taken 
in many ways. I think DD refers to his ability to survive most 
situations.

The reason why I don't want to see Harry as a character with only 
good qualities (and for me is clearly shown in the books that he is 
far from it) and idolized is that it would take so much away from the 
books. They would end up to be just another set of books like there 
are thousends of them where the are no shades of grey. Where all good 
guys are totally good and all bad guys are totally bad. 
I do hope in the next books we will learn more not only about Harry's 
past but also of Voldemort's. As he is evil now but I would like to 
know what set him on that path. And I can see similarities between 
him and Harry.