Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, and flaws in the books
pippin_999
foxmoth at qnet.com
Wed Jul 14 00:53:42 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 106107
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> 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.
<snip>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.<
But that's what Voldemort does to people. He tricks, jinxes and
blackmails people into doing terrible things without being able to
stop themselves. You can't say we weren't warned. Harry simply
never wanted to consider that Voldemort might be doing
something like that to *him.* Oh no, he's too special.
I can't blame the other members of the DA too much. They went
because Harry was going, to help him, even if there was nothing
they could do but die beside him, because he would have done
the same for them.
Pippin
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