What JKR Finds Important

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116031


Syroun wrote :
"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."

Del replies :
I'm like that too. That's probably even why I reacted so violently to
Harry's anger : because it created an emotional response in me.

Syroun wrote : 
"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?"

Del replies :
I would agree, if Harry hadn't been so UN-emotional in the previous
books. That's even why of the reasons I never really managed to be
close to him : because up to OoP, he was so unemotional. It's not just
that he was keeping his emotions inside ; I could have related very
well to that. But it really seemed to me like he did not *have* strong
emotions. He would flare up once in a while, but most of the time, he
just went through the motions. In a word, he was very *reasonable*,
which is totally unlike me.
And then suddenly, in OoP, he becomes completely unreasonable and
overly emotional. He's got reasons for that, for sure. But somehow the
transition was not well done for me, and it all looked like a hiatus.
It looked like we still had calm, self-controlled Harry at the end of
GoF, and suddenly we had angry, irrational Harry at the beginning of
OoP. It was too much of a jump for me. And the fact that nobody called
Harry on that change didn't help, because it really made me feel like
I was suddenly reading a story about a different Harry.

Syroun wrote : 
" Harry is not a non-emotive tree stump!"

Del replies :
Well, no, but he did act like one most of the time before OoP. Why did
that change ? Why did he suddenly change his way of coping with
things, and most importantly, why was nobody in the books bothered
with that ?

Del