What JKR Finds Important

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delwynmarch wrote:
> About OoP. Antosha, you explain very clearly why Harry should 
indeed
> be disturbed. My only problem is that Harry *starts the book* 
already
> disturbed! He was NOT disturbed at the end of GoF, we had no sign
> that he was going to change so dramatically. And then we start OoP
> barely a month later, and suddenly Harry is being unfair to his
> friends, he's bullying Dudley, and he's being generally extremely
> moody and bad-tempered. This is not necessarily unrealistic, but it
> prevented me from getting into the book, because I felt it wasn't 
the
> same Harry anymore. It wasn't the Harry I left in GoF.


Hmmm... In all the discussions of teenage angst and Harry's 
seemingly sudden anger, we forget that he is not the only one 
maturing in these books.

After the first four books, I too found Harry to be a rather flat 
character, compared with Hermione and Ron. If anything, his 
emotional explosion into OotP signified to me JKR's progress as a 
writer. It also showed her need to bring the emotional consequences 
of Harry's life into focus. Harry must ask the questions JKR needs 
to answer in the last two books, in order to complete the story and 
provide us with (the many) missing details.

The Big-O, without a collapsible roof