Harry : compassion vs saving-people thing

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> 
> Del replies :
> Can you prove that ? Can you show me quotes in the canon where 
Harry
> actually thinks about what other people will feel if something 
happens
> to someone, that he *shares* their pain, and that he then acts with
> the specific intention of stopping or diminishing that pain ? 



Alla:


I thought I can, but I just read Annemehr's examples, which I concur 
with, but you are just dismissing them as NORMAL reaction, therefore 
I am afraid you are losing me again, Del. :)

Harry feeling compassionate towards Neville and you are saying that 
only Draco Malfoy would have not felt compassion under such 
circumstances. No, I am pretty sure Draco Malfoy would not, but how 
does Harry's compassion becomes less meaningful? I am confused again


Intent to relive other people's pain, right? That is your 
definition? So, do you only count something as compassionate deed 
when it is done in ABNORMAL cirumstances?. Does look like heroism to 
me.


Here is another quote, but I am afraid you will again dismiss it as 
NORMAL reaction, Del.

"He was working flat-out just to get through all their homework, 
though he madea point of sending regular food packages  up to the 
cave in the mountain for Sirius; after last summer, Harry had not 
forgotten what it felt like to be continually hungry" - GoF, p.548, 
paperback.

Harry knows that Sirius is hungry, so he makes sure to relive his 
suffering. Does it pass your muster, Del?