Harry's anger: teen angst or channeling Voldemort?

[Andrew]

No: HPFGUIDX 94225

nkafkafi wrote:
> I know that many list members, me included, have felt uneasy about 
> Harry's anger in OotP. It wasn't in character, and made him less 
> likeable than he is in the previous books. Sure, Harry has many 
> reasons for anger in OotP, and he is 15 and has the hormone surge 
> (thought I find it a terrible cliché, and somehow Ron and Hermione 
> manage to avoid the same fate). But isn't it obvious that Harry's 
> anger, or at least the worst of it, is simply channeling LV's 
> emotions through the scar link?
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I can see how these similar to the feelings Harry has when LV is 
acting through him, but I don't think it is anything more than teen 
angst.  He doesn't think Ron or Hermione (or Dumbledore, at the end) 
can understand the way he feels about what is going on, so his 
reaction is to try to put them in a position similar to his own: to 
make them feel how he feels.  I can remember feeling the same way.

-RF