Harry mastering his emotions in HPB (was: Plot in OotP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 118210


 
> SSSusan wrote:
> > > This is one of the reasons I've proposed before [and taken 
some 
> > > grief for doing so, I might add :-)] that Harry will manage to 
> > > find a way to work w/ Snape, even if Snape keeps on being a 
> > > prick.  I think JKR will show us a Harry who comes to be ready 
to 
> > > really focus on ending VoldyWarII. 

Potioncat:
I am shocked at you, SSSusan!  How could you say "...if Snape keeps 
on being a prick...."  You should have said, "...if Professor Snape 
keeps on being a prick..." 

>  
> Lupinlore: 
snip
> > Granted that this is Harry's story, as I have pointed out 
myself.  
> > Still, having Severus be nothing more than an unchanging 
obstacle, 
> > a lesson in working with difficult people, would IMO be a huge 
cop 
> > out on JKR's part.  Worse, turning Harry into a turn-the-other 
> > cheek martyr, especially if there is also an emphasis on how 
both 
> > Harry and Voldy came from similar childhoods but made different 
> > choices, would risk turning the whole story into a moral 
allegory 
> > approaching some of C.S. Lewis' work. 

snip> > 
> > I grant you all of this is *a* way to bring these issues to a 
head 
> > and a close.  But if JKR goes this route it would strike me as --
 
> > and I know this is a strong word but it really does describe how 
I 
> > would feel -- insipid.
> 


Potioncat:
Snape has said Harry has to control his emotions.
McGonagall has said Harry has to control his emotions.
JKR has said Harry has to control his emotions.
I'm getting the idea that Harry has to control his emotions.  

Harry found out he was a wizard and that magic is real.  Problems 
didn't go away and he can't just wish and flick them to oblivion.  
He pretty much has to deal with things within a certain framework.  
So unless he's going to shove Professor Snape into a vanishing 
cabinet, he's going to have to deal with him. I don't see him using 
the same level of maturation as an adult, but teens have to put up 
with unreasonable adults all the time. It can be done with style and 
it doesn't have to be insipid.

Of course, I'd like to see some softening (just a little) on Snape's 
part.


> SSSusan:
> [Breathing deeply -- Lupinlore said *it* would be insipid, not 
that 
> *you* are insipid....]


Potioncat:
And I nominate SSSusan to be the one to teach Harry how to control 
his emotions.