Harry's Justified Not to Trust (was Harry as Kreacher)

[paul_terzis]

No: HPFGUIDX 100699


Arya writes:
> Harry is justified, IMO. In fact, since everyone and anyone knows 
> Harry's life story (especially the teachers) they are guilty of 
> even more for not trying to understand how Harry is a bit different 
> than a normal, more trusting teen.  
> ---
> 
> Jo Ann:
> Here, JKR is using an old game master's trick known in the 
> roleplaying circles I frequent as "Lie, lie, tell the truth."  
> Create a pattern of deceptive situations, condition the character to 
> no longer accept anything at face value, and then break that pattern 
> when they least expect it.
> 
> In this case, the pattern JKR created for Harry was "Following the 
> rules may result in horrible things happening."  Just as he was 
> firmly convinced that this was always going to be the case, and that 
> he could therefore safely ignore the rules--perhaps was even obligated 
> to do so--she (or life, or Voldemort, from his POV) pulled the rug out 
> from under him by presenting a situation where it was absolutely vital 
> that he do as he was told.


Paul : The truth is that HP is acting or should I say reacting almost
in an expected way. What we have until now. A chess game between 
many players, visible and invisible, and HP as the main pawn that 
almost anyone can use with the proper manipulation. Almost everyone 
has his own agenda included AD and in every agenda HP is just an 
object, an asset. Almost every person HP truly had trusted, betrayed 
him with one way or another. Would you blame him if HP didn't trust 
anyone. And here we have a contradiction from JKR that justifies what 
I state in the beginning as almost expected way. HP still trusts 
people. If I were HP with his history I would trust NOONE.