Harry & Seamus (Was: Harry not a Prefect & his Inner Voice)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115164



> Del wrote:
 In fact, Harry's interaction with those boys is a quite clear
> illustration of what you say : they are all in the same class, they
> sleep in the same dorm, but we don't see that Harry knows either of
> them very well beyond that (and vice versa). That's even why I'm so
> annoyed for his getting angry at Seamus because the boy believes his
> mom : Harry seems to expect Seamus to believe him instead, even though
> they are no more than classmates, far from friends. But that's another
> matter entirely.
 
Finwitch now:

Actually, I'm not at all annoyed with Harry. They *do* share a dorm.
They *do* share classes. This means that

1) Seamus must have seen enough to know that Harry is NOT insane, or
at least enough for reasonable doubt, and never mind what his mother
who has never so much as met Harry says based on hearsay of others who
don't know Harry either.

2) friends or not, a housemate should at least take 'innocent until
proven guilty' -approach. Particularly as we know how Harry himself
does take all the trouble for proper evidence in case of Draco Malfoy,
who is NOT a housemate and definately not a friend, even when he
firmly believes Draco's the Heir of Slytherin... Can't Harry expect
*that* much from his housemate? To at least ASK Harry before jumping
into conclusions/believing nasty rumours?

3)There's also the matter of Sirius. Even while harry thought it WAS
Sirius' fault, he asked first and assumed there had been a trial
before he went to jail. There wasn't one. Harry *knows* the truth,
that Sirius didn't do it! So when Seamus' mother (and Seamus by not
standing up to her) condemn Harry without trial, without a chance to
speak for himself - deep down, it's the *same* thing that happened to
Sirius. Condemned for something you're not guilty of. Besides, Harry
was freed of all charges in the trial he DID have.

IMO, Harry has every right to get angry at Seamus. (more for Seamus'
mother, but I don't count Seamus as a completely innocent bystander in
this either.)

Finwitch