What JKR Finds Important

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116055


Geoff wrote :
" At the beginning of OOTP, Harry has just turned 15. Some folk have
commented that he makes a sudden transition from being fairly placid
to being angry. "

snip the rest, because it would be too long to quote it all :-)

Del replies :
Geoff, you don't understand what I meant. I wasn't trying to say that
it was unnatural for Harry to evolve the way he did.

What I'm trying to explain is that, because the change occured
off-screen, and because I'm nothing like Harry, it didn't MAKE SENSE
to me. To me, it was as big a leap as suddenly having a Black Harry or
a thin and nice Dudley for example. It wouldn't make sense, you would
go "Duh !?", right ? That's what happened to me : Angry!Harry made me
go "Duh !?" because his transformation is not natural *for me*, it's
something I need explained. But JKR did *not* explain, she just said
"well, that's how he is now", and by so doing she lost me.

If the change had happened on-screen, if I had seen Harry evolve into
Angry!Harry, I would probably have accepted and understood it much
better. But instead of that, I had to forget *years* of knowing a
certain Harry, and I was supposed to instantly accept a completely new
and totally bewildering (to me) Harry. I couldn't. Not in a couple of
days. That's why I never got into the book the first time through.

Del