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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> 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.
<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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