[HPforGrownups] Re: What JKR Finds Important

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 116037

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.


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

Sherry now

I was very bothered with Harry's attitude in OOTP.  In hindsight, I thought
that much of it could have been him channeling a lot of Voldemort's anger
and attitude.  Sure, he had reasons, Cedric's death, being isolated,
Dumbledore's withdrawal ... But even so it all seemed extreme to me.  It was
hard to hang on and like him for the whole book.  In fact, not until the DA,
did I start feeling more sympathy for him.  When he was teaching the DA, he
was much more likable, especially how he worked with Neville.  It was a
pretty abrupt change, now that you have caused me to think about it, and I'm
with you wondering why nobody commented on it.  Especially because he was so
rude to his closest friends through much of the book.

I do usually like Harry, though I admit he is not the most interesting
character to me.  But he's the hero, and for the most part I am on his side
and feel sorrow for the things that happen to him.  But to quote something
the twins might say, he sure was acting like a git in that book!

Sherry G






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