What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116772


Alla wrote :
"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.:)

(snip)

"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)."

Del replies :
I kinda agree with you. My top 3, not necessarily in that order :

- The attempt at casting Crucio on Bella. This was just plainly wrong,
and Harry must realise it. He must realise that there are things he
cannot allow himself to do, no matter the circumstances, without being
at risk of turning evil himself. Well, in fact he's already realised
that, since he cannot consider killing LV. But he must also IMO
realise that things like Crucio are just as bad.

- Going into Snape's Pensieve. This was both wrong and stupid. Wrong
because this time Harry knew what a Pensieve was, so he knew that
entering one is violating one's privacy. And stupid because he knew
that he didn't know how to get out of it.

- The way he treated his friends way too often in OoP. I can accept
the way he treated Hermione in PoA, because he didn't know her very
well, and he hadn't learned yet that she would never try to hurt him
intentionally unless it was for his own protection. But in OoP, the
way he uses Ron and Hermione as verbal punching-bags, no matter how
often he realises that they were right to start with (impossibility to
reveal anything of interest in coded letters, creating the DA...),
just gets on my nerves. In particular, the way he shouted at Hermione
in the end, when she suggested that his dream was a trap, is not
acceptable by my standards. It's not so much what he said or did, it's
the disrespect he showed for her (and Ron's) undying support and
loyalty. But this one is really personal to me, I understand that.

Del