What JKR Finds Important

[delwynmarch]

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Pippin wrote :
" Actually, JKR does warn us that Harry is not okay at the end of GoF."

Del replies :
Well, yes, but then Harry was never fine by the end of a book before.
And yet he always managed to pull himself more or less together by the
beginning of the next book.

Pippin wrote :
"JKR is playing her usual game of leading us into false assumptions.
Harry has been changed forever at the end of GoF, but he doesn't
realize it yet, just as he can't see the thestrals yet. The reader is
allowed to experience that denial right along with him, yet the signs
that all is not well, though hardly obvious,  are clearly in evidence."

Del replies :
There's a huge difference between "things are not well, Harry has been
changed forever" and "Harry will turn into a git in the next month". I
knew Harry wasn't well, of course, but I never in the entire world
would have expected him to turn into Angry!Harry all of a sudden like
he did. What I expected was exactly the contrary : Silent!Harry,
Leave-me-alone!Harry, I-don't-care!Harry. I did NOT expect a Harry who
resents his friends for not telling him more (after all, Harry's habit
is to *not* ask questions, right ?). I did NOT expect a Harry who
turns his own frustration on his cousin. I did NOT expect a Harry who
lashes at everyone. I did NOT expect a Harry who greeted his friends
with yells and recriminations, and so on. And no matter how much I
tried to accomodate, I was always left behind. It does get tiring and
frustrating after a while, until I just stopped trying, and so also
stopped caring.

Ah well, not the right personality, I guess.

Del