[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 22 - St. Mungo's Hospital

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 104723




"mcmaxslb" <McGregorMax at e...> wrote:

[snip]...if the Order just leaves Harry at 
Privet Dr. to stew in grief and guilt, well JKR says that this summer will be Harry's shortest stay with the Dursleys that you wonder is they have to take him out because he hurts himself.  McMax.

meriaugust <meriaugust at yahoo.com> wrote:  Well, I don't know if he'll hurt himself. I don't think, despite 
Harry wanting to die and be with Sirius after watching his godfather's murder, that he is actually suicidal. 

[snippin' like a barber]

akh: meriaugst, you continued with exactly my thoughts when I read the original post.  Harry is past the "most trying age," as Elizabeth Bennett says in P&P.  As has been mentioned in other threads, his talk with Luna before the end of the term marked his change of attitude.  The fact that he is accompanied by the Order on his trip to King's Cross says to me that they are paying close attention to him, and I feel  he's likely to leave because he's either threatening the safety of the Dursleys by his presence in their house or needs to be at the Order headquarters to address some crisis.  Frankly, he never struck me as a suicidal type (and as a former high school teacher, I've seen the suicidal type).

akh, who never misses an opportunity to introduce Jane Austen into a discussion...


		
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