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[pippin_999]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" 
<nkafkafi at y...> 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).<

Hardly. Ron is pretty hormonal in  GoF. He's also irrationally 
angry with  Harry and Hermione. Hermione has had her moods 
as well. I am wondering if the snappish and emotional 
Hermione of PoA was Teenangst!Hermione or just a preview of 
what we 'll see in Book Six.


>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?

But when the scar link is active, it hurts. 


> The telling part is that Harry is not just angry in OotP, he 
actually  *enjoys* his friends' hurt. This is definitely not Harry.
Our 
Harry  doesn't have a sadistic streak in him. Well, perhaps 
towards Dudley  in moments of discord, or towards Snape, but 
certainly not towards  Ron and Hermione.<

But at that moment he was just as angry with them as he has 
been with Snape, and he wanted them to feel hurt because he 
was hurting so badly.

In a way this shows his growth as a person. He used to either 
repress his anger or withdraw into silence. Now at least he can 
tell his friends what's bothering him--something that was much 
more difficult for him in GoF. Remember how he didn't want to 
tell them that his scar had been hurting, and didn't want to tell 
them that he'd dreamed of a plot against his life. 

  Harry is more in touch with his emotions now, and as a teen, 
his capacity for feeling has grown. . He can't help feeling angry, 
or wanting to hurt people sometimes, but he can decide how he 
is going to manage those feelings. 


Pippin