The word "prince" in OotP

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 104126

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:
> As in, you were not a pampered prince like your father/ like you 
> would have been if your father's kin had raised you/ like you 
> might have been if you had been raised by a family aware of your 
> lineage.  Just my immediate guess as to what sort of contrast 
> Dumbledore had in mind when he spoke these words.
> 
Frankly, I think Dumbledore has a point.  Considering how obnoxious 
Harry was in OotP, throwing in the faces of his friends all his 
mighty deeds as The Great Harry Potter, I shudder to think what he'd 
have been like if he'd been flattered and cossetted all his life by 
a wizarding family.  He seems to be very vulnerable to Swelled-Head 
Syndrome (must get it from his dad).  His most likable 
characteristic - his sympathy with the unfortunate and the 
underdogs, is a direct result of the miserable upbringing he had 
with the Dursleys.  It's because he's suffered himself that he can 
empathize with suffering, even with Snape's.  If he hadn't been 
brought up in such a hard school, I could see him turning out like 
Draco.

Wanda