just a couple of thoughts about Harry

ellencs44 ellencs44 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 9 08:06:58 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 105230

This is my first post, so please bear with my ignorance.  I've been reading a lot of the 
more recent posts (golly you guys are prolific) and I've seen a lot about Harry not 
getting the sort of support he should from the adults around him.  I even saw one 
about DD using "Harry as bait."  I'm not sure who that was, sorry.  How about this one 
instead though.  Harry as icon.  He is a totally iconic character, with the minor 
exception of his Divination homework, where he's all teenage boy.  Virtually every 
action he takes is to help, to save, for good.  I work with children of varying ages, and 
I've never met a boy that age, who's that good.  Also, he's, considering all that's going 
on around him, a remarkably passive character.  He says very little really, but listens a 
lot, not always to good effect, but he listens, and he watches, usually to very good 
effect.  I also saw a comment about his eyes, which made me think of something else.   
When people remark on his resemblance to his father, it's always, 'you look so much 
like James.' but then there's always 'but you have your mother's eyes.'  Innocent 
enough in our world, but in the WW nothing's ever quite that simple, right?  And from 
the Pensieve scene, we do know that Lily Evans saw things around her quite clearly, 
didn't she.  She defended Snape, but when he insulted her, she gave it back pretty 
well.  And when James tried to make Snape pay for that insult, she gave to James 
pretty well too.  Just something to think about.   Ok, back to Harry.  Hermione 
mentions in OoTP that Harry has a 'saving people thing.'  But isn't that exactly what 
he's supposed to do.  What if our world isn't the only one where babies can be 
'created.'  What if the prophecy, given, I believe, a year before both Harry and Neville 
were born, wasn't about Harry at all, but was about Neville.  What if, in order to 
protect Neville, Harry was created, by Dumbledore, who knows exactly what will 
happen, and lets it, to test the stuff, so to speak, that Harry's  made of.  Doesn't Harry  
himself postulate something similar (different reasons, but similar)  in SS?  I mean, if 
there is such a thing as a time-turner, it stands to reason there must be more than 
one, it would be a simple matter for Dumbledore to have one, and go ahead, keeping 
an eye on Harry.  The only problem is, in order for Harry to accomplish what he must, 
he must have the sort of personality that draws people to him, to help him, and he 
does.  This of course also includes Dumbledore himself.  He says so at the end of 
OoTP, at least that's the way I read it, that he's started to care for Harry, as a father, 
and it's getting in the way of 'his plans.'  He realizes that creating Harry will save lives, 
but that sacrificing Harry for those plans may be beyond him.  We already know it's 
not beyond Harry though.  I don't think that Harry will survive to the end of book 7.  
Close, though.  Sorry

Ellen (should I duck  now?)







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