What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 30 14:31:40 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 116766


Hi, guys! This question is inspired by recent Dirty Harry/Clean 
Harry thread.

As you probably know, I love Harry dearly. :) Part of why I love him 
for is that while he does his fair share of everyday 
transgressions , on the grand scale of things he is a good child or 
good teenager. Like in "never leaving side of light" good :)

But of course he is not perfect on the grand scale of things either. 
So, my question is - for what in his life Harry should REALLY feel 
sorry for?

Please think BIG.:)

 Forget for a moment about everyday breaking of the rules, 
especially if that was due to the reason of fighting Voldie. I know 
that if we put all those things together, we can draw a portrait of 
a teen, who should be in the juvenile detention center or similar 
place like that. But I doubt that such portrait will be very 
accurate. :)

Think about something, which cannot be justified by any ethical 
reasons (OK, well, I can probably justify any deed of Harry's , but 
I know not everybody does that :)).

Personally on the top of my head I can only think about three 
things - Harry not seeing Hermione side of things earlier in PoA 
(actually, I think he already felt sorry for it), Harry looking into 
Snape's Pensieve and of course Harry trying to cast Crucio ( I don't 
think that was unjustifiable and the fact that he could not cast it 
speaks all the best for him, but in any event unforgivable is 
unforgivable and he needs to learn how to restrain himself even in 
the time of greatest pain).


Again, on the top of my head I cannot come up with any other 
transgressions of Harry which are not usual for growing up boy or 
teenager, but I am ready to be convinced otherwise.







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