Harry & Seamus.

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115836


> Carol responds:
> As for why the knowledge is so limited, it's partly Harry's
> understandable unwillingness to talk about events in the graveyard
> before the end of term in GoF and partly DD's own very limited and
> almost distorted version of events. Technically, Voldemort didn't
> murder Cedric. Wormtail did. But if either Harry or DD were to 
reveal
> that, who would believe them? 
> 
> If, instead of flying off the handle in OoP and insulting Seamus's
> mother, who rightly or wrongly was not abusing her child but trying 
to
> protect him, Harry had confided the truth to Seamus and Dean, 
wouldn't
> Seamus have trusted him? Surely it's Harry who's in the wrong here?

Finwitch:

I think it's simply a misunderstanding between Harry&Seamus.

And mind you, while Hermione told him that 'papers have discredited 
him' and that's all Harry knows about it, and it's just as much 
headlines as Dumbledore's 'Voldemort murdered Cedric Diggory'.

Also, I'm not saying that Mrs F is like a Dursley, just that I find 
that Harry subconciously interprets her 'believing nasty lies about 
Harry' and 'preventing a young wizard from coming to Hogwarts' as 
very Dursley-like. (And they're not sending bubotuber pus to anyone 
either).

Actually, it's rather: do you believe that Voldemort's back&killed 
Diggory or that Harry's a liar&killed Diggory?

Further, that Harry's required to 'prove his innosence' by giving out 
the details is, in itself, against basic human rights. Sure, it makes 
it easier for people to believe him, but...

Anyway, I find it understandable that Harry gets angry & now he's 
letting it out instead of holding it back till he explodes. He's also 
very sensitive about people rejecting/discrediting him - particularly 
if it's between him and a family member. As much with Seamus&his 
mother as Ron&Percy.

Also, considering how the only memory Harry has of his parents is how 
they *died*, and even that comes up only in the presence of a 
Dementor (or a boggart who pretends to be a Dementor), and the rest 
of his personal experience is Dursleys. There is only Sirius for 
Harry. (And just as with Harry at this point, WW thinks of him as a 
killer/murderer, so he can't do all he'd want to do...)

Let's see about Harry being told by a loving family member that 
someone's dangerous: Sirius doubted Karkaroff, and as extension tells 
Harry to stay away from Krum. Harry, who finds this doubtful, acts as 
if Sirius never told him anything about them at all.

So, since Seamus *tells* Dean about that, Harry (mis)interprets that 
Seamus believes her, or is, possibly, so much at odds with her that 
he wouldn't mind someone offending her...

In short, Harry doesn't see how anyone would tell people that sort of 
thing if they didn't believe it. Until Ron got that letter from Percy 
and tore it apart, such an idea would never occur to Harry.

Finwitch