What JKR Finds Important

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115976


Alla wrote :
"Well, since you care more about Ron and Hermione, I understand you 
being upset."

Del replies :
Actually, I didn't really care more about them than Harry before OoP.
I liked them all the same : all a lot. I cared a lot about Harry :
when Molly gave him that hug at the end of GoF, I was right there with
her !

It's in fact *since* OoP that I don't care much about Harry anymore. I
never really related to him before, but I did get upset whenever
something bad happened to him and I did want him to be happy. But in
OoP, I couldn't care less.

Ron and Hermione, OTOH, only grew in my eyes through OoP. First of all
because they remained so steadfastly loyal to Harry no matter how
badly he treated them. And also because they seemed to handle their
own private lives quite well, unlike someone else. (And yes I know,
their lives were nowhere as hard or complicated as someone else's
life. Don't bite :-)

Alla wrote :
"As far as I am concerned, Harry needed to go throw this blow up at 
everybody phase."

Del replies :
I guess one of my problems is that it came at a completely wrong time
*in my idea*. I was truly expecting Harry to blow up in one of the
first books, but no, he just swallowed it all like it was nothing. He
seemed to be the epitome of the resilient kid that nothing can truly
disturb. And then suddenly, in OoP, he blows up at the slighest
offence, real or imaginary. He had always held himself up very nicely,
but then suddenly everyone has to suffer for his own problems. You
see, I'm not at all like Harry, so to me, all of this seemed either
forced on the part of JKR or self-indulging on the part of Harry.
Either way, it jerked me out of the story, and cut me off from Harry.

Del