What JKR Finds Important

[syroun]

No: HPFGUIDX 116000


(snip)
Del:
> > My main problem was Harry and his emotions, and particularly the 
way
> > he abuses his friends. I was never too close to Harry pre-OoP, 
but I
> > did care about him. However, when I ran into
> > Angry!Yell-at-everyone!Harry, I stopped caring.

Alla:
(snip)
> As far as I am concerned, Harry needed to go throw this blow up at 
> everybody phase. I am glad it happened, I am noly hoping that he 
> will change back slow enough.


Del: 
> > I do hope Harry will change in HBP, though.
Alla:
> Personally, I am positive of it.

Syroun adds:

JKR has told us that the basis through which Harry was saved from LV 
is emotion- his mother's love protected him then and it resides in 
him now as a form of protection. I find it in character that as he 
matures, he shows more and more that he is his mother's son. That 
may be uncharacteristic for a boy but the basis for his character. I 
think I find Harry's behaviour less objectionable than others may, 
because I am like him. I feel things, very deeply and that is my 
core. That does not mean that I am mentally unstable, but I am known 
to cry at movies or even when I am watching TV, or listening to the 
radio and see or hear something that is compelling. 

I cannot change that characteristic in myself but I have learned, 
over the years to temper my reactions that stem from those deep 
emotions. I am less apt to argue my point immediately upon 
confrontation, but have the ability now to wait for the correct 
moment (usually!). I also know people that react no differently than 
a tree stump when confronted with an emotional situation. I believe 
that they feel emotion, but cannot or will not express it. So, who 
is better off?

Harry feels very deeply the loss of his parents and more recently, 
the loss of Sirius. His situation is simply overwhelming emotionally 
and his reaction to it, in the abscence of parental control or 
adequate supervision, is expected. His ability to feel emotion and 
his propensity to react to it, or perhaps over-react, is seminal to 
his character; he will not change fundamentally, but his behaviour 
hopefully will become more deliberate and planned....otherwise he 
may not survive physically or emotionally. Isn't that the process of 
maturation for us all?

Harry is not a non-emotive tree stump!

Syroun