Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, and flaws in the books

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106081


Pippin wrote:
> > It doesn't really matter that the vision of Sirius was false--even 
> > if Sirius had truly been held captive, Harry shouldn't have gone 
> > after him.

HunterGreen answered :
> That's true. And that's one of the things that really bothered me 
> when I was reading OotP. Harry and the others had no real plan 
> besides just walzting into the MoM, as though a bunch of kids could 
> save Sirius from *death eaters*. That chapter is the only time I've 
> really been pulled out of the book, and felt like I was reading a 
> children's story....at least in the past there was some reason why it 
> was Harry in the end going after something that an adult should be 
> doing, in this instance they should have tried to find another adult 
> besides Snape to tell the story to (I'm sure they could have found a 
> way to contact at least Ron's parents). The whole thing was just 
> ridiculous, I can understand Harry and Ron rushing off without 
> thinking about it, but Hermione? And then Luna, Neville and Ginny? 
> (esepecially since they barely knew what was going on).

Del replies :
I couldn't agree more. I was completely appalled at how Harry first
believed in such an absurdity as Sirius being tortured by LV in the
DoM (come ON !!!), and then tried to force his friends to believe in
it too by *shouting* at them (that's not the Harry I know). I was even
more disappointed at Hermione for not refusing point-blank to go
there, and not only because I was SOOOOO hoping that she would
*finally* tell Harry to get lost, but because it's just not Hermione.
Both Harry *and* Hermione acted out-of-character on that one.

It was very hard for me to read the story from that point on, because
I had been completely pulled out of the book. Everything stank of
absurdity, and it was really a drag to read about how Harry was
yelling at everyone and being a horrible little dictator trying to
intimidate everyone into obeying him.

So that when they finally got in the Prophecy room and there was no
Sirius, I was so angry at that new Harry that I didn't even take any
pleasure in thinking "I told you so!". I just wanted to slap him
around the face, hard. And when the DEs arrived, I almost cried with
frustration and rage. I was also afraid for all the kids, *except* Harry.

I was never a real fan of Harry, but this was so horribly out of
character that it made reading about it painful. Even after the bad
temper Harry had been in all year, even considering what he'd seen in
his dream, the whole scene was simply out-of-character for me.

Del