What JKR Finds Important - Harry's Anger

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116053



Steve/bboyminn wrote :
" First to Del's point that "...I felt it wasn't the same Harry
anymore ...". You are right, he is not the same Harry any more, and he
can never be the old innocent, having keen adventures with Ron, Harry
ever again."

Del replies :
You got me wrong, Steve. I never wished Harry not to evolve, quite the
contrary in fact. What I meant is that I felt OoP-Harry was an
entirely new boy. It's like when they change the actor who plays a
recurrent character in a show between two seasons : it's still the
same character, but it's just not the same thing anymore, and it takes
a long while to get used to the new actor and to stop regretting the
old one. That's how I felt : that OoP was still about a boy named
Harry, but this boy wasn't the one I had come to know. He didn't react
the same way, he did things that IMO the Harry I knew wouldn't have
done *even under the same circumstances* !! 

Steve/bboyminn wrote :
"In addition, the first chapters of OotP do describe how Harry go into
that state."

Del replies :
No, they explain *why* he went into that state. When the book begins,
Harry has *already* changed. We don't see Harry morphing into the new
one ; when the new season begins, the actor has already been changed.

Steve/bboyminn wrote :
"It should be clear by now that I'm in sync with Kethryn which is
slightly disconcerting because Del and I are frequently of similar minds."

Del replies :
Ah bah, we can't *always* agree, can we :-) ? And in fact, we don't
really disagree anyway.

Steve/bboyminn wrote : 
"I see Harry's transition as realistic, but unsettling."

Del replies :
I see it as completely realistic too, *now*. But because we didn't
actually get to see Harry going *through* the transition, I never
managed to get into Harry's new skin, on my first reading.

And I agree with you that it was criminal to leave Harry so alone,
when so much could have been done.

And I have a question. I don't remember Harry writing to Sirius, and
more especially I don't remember him being angry at Sirius for not
telling him anything. How come ?

Del