Producing a Patronus + reaction to a Dementor

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 89450

Frost wrote : 
 
> I like him, but not because he's a great perfect person.  I like 
> him because his struggles remind me of my own, and that really lets 
 me feel his humanity.

And Sue commented :

> My opinion of Harry has never been that he is perfect.  No one is.  
> I only feel that the perspective that he is inately evil is off the 
> mark.

Del goes "huh ?" :

I'm not sure where you got the idea that anyone on this list thinks 
Harry is inately evil. I'm probably one of those who less like Harry, 
but I don't think he's inately evil. I DO think that he's got an evil 
side, like everyone does, and that he gives in to it sometimes, like 
many people do. I DO think that his anger and his hurt COULD take him 
on the wrong path, but I also DO think that he's got what it takes to 
make the right choices. It's all up to him. He will have to choose.

What I'm up against, is that adoring attitude I see too often in 
posts, about Harry being inherently "better" than everyone 
else. "Harry shows more compassion", "Harry is more magically 
powerful", "Harry is the only one worthy to become Head Boy", etc, 
etc... Well, no, I don't think so. Harry does have a great potential, 
like a lot of other students, including Draco, but what matters is 
what they are going to do with that potential.

Sue :

> He used an unforgivable curse, bad choice, not a bad person.  

Del answers :

But our choices shape our personality ! One bad choice won't make him 
a bad person, but he has to realise how bad a choice it was, and 
decide never to do it again.

Sue :

> It seems to me then that as it would be biased and one sided to see 
> Harry as perfect in every way, it is equally as one sided to see 
> him as evil.  He is HUMAN and he is YOUNG.

Del answers :

I do NOT see him as evil, but I DO fight for people to stop 
presenting him as inherently perfect and better than everyone else.

> Sue (Who believes that Harry will prove how extrordinary he is by 
> the end of book 7)

Del laughs :

See ? You're doing it again :-) First you say Harry is a human being, 
and then you go on saying he is extraordinary. You're not necessarily 
technically wrong, but you make it sound like Harry is above all the 
rest, like he's the ONLY ONE who will prove how extraordinary he is. 
In my idea, quite a few other people, both young and older, will come 
to prove how extraordinary they can be, just as extraordinary as 
Harry ! It's a war, it's bound to bring to the light the best and the 
worst of everyone.

Del