Hate Harry / Love Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 101001

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Meri back again to clear up her original post: Harry, for someone 
> who was raised the way he was, *is* exceptionally compassionate. He 
> spent ten years in an abusive household, and that he came out of 
> that situation with the ability to feel anything at all towards 
> others that isn't contempt is really impressive to me. 


Alla: Yep, always wondered why Harry did not blew up at everybody in 
the first book as he did in OoP.


 
> Meri: Well, I don't know whatI would have done if a house elf 
showed 
> up in my bedroom and proceeded to make noise while the people 
> downstairs were pretending that I didn't exsist. I might have just 
> chucked Dobby out of the window and be done with it, especially if 
I 
> was in fear of my life or my future at Hogwarts. And yes there is 
> Hermione, but one other example is not "most wizards", and 
> Hermione's actions towards house elves are less from compassion and 
> more from righteous indignation. If she did feel compassion towards 
> them she would have just let Winky alone in GoF. 
>

Alla:

Exactly, it seems to me that Del's position (Sorry, if I 
misinterpreted it, Dell) is that the deed is only compassionate if 
nobody else whould have done it. 

 
> > Meri wrote previously:
> > > At the end of the ressurection scene in GoF, Harry grants 
> > > Ghost!Cedric's wish to return his body to his parents, 
something 
> > > which he does at great cost to himself.


> > 
> > Del previously:
> > Yep, *that* one really impressed me !!
>

 
> Meri: 
Sarcasm? I can't tell. But it did really impress me. Harry was 
> being chased and shot at by thirty DEs and LV himself, and because 
> of the weight of Cedric's body he could barely reach for the cup. 
If 
> he hadn't come up with Accio in time we'd be reading a different 
> book 5. If I were in that situation, I probably would have dropped 
> Cedric like a hot potato and booked it for all *my* life, but Harry 
> didn't, even though no one would have faulted him for it if he had. 
>

Alla: 

I think Del will probably dismiss it to "saving people thing" :o) As 
I said many times, if I were in danger, I would really, really want 
that the person who passes  by had this "saving people thing"




> > Meri wrote :
> > > He never tells Ron or Hermione about Neville's parents after 
> > > learning about their fate
> > 
> > Del previously:
> > So what ? He was forbidden to, he had no right to do so.
> 
> Meri: There are lots of things Harry is forbidden to do, and that 
> usually doesn't stop him from gettin Ron and Hermione involved. 



Alla: Dell, I see Harry gets no points with you again. Oh, well :o)



  
> Meri: I am still unclear what you mean by "kids like him". Harry is 
> pretty normal a kid. Do you mean average kids? Anyway, Harry is 
> exactly the kind of kid I wish there were more of: fundamentally 
> decent, fun, interesting, and totally normal. Well, sort of normal 
> if you take away the targeted by LV thing. 
> Meri - Harry lover till the end.


Alla: 

I know one thing, I would definitely want a child like Harry. :o)