What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[Christy]

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Alla Said:
 I disagree. Prior to OOP Harry never doubted Dumbledore (I can be 
> wrong of course).

Maybe I used bad phrasing (or didn't explain well enough *g*), but it
isn't doubt as much as trust. Harry doesn't really trust DD, and has
no reason to not trust him. While I agree, after DD explains himself
at the end of Order Harry has plenty of reasons to not trust him (and
oddly enough, I think Harry trusts him MORE at that point than any
other) previous to that Harry doesn't have a reason to not trust DD.
Yet he still has mistrust. You can see it when Harry continually
decides to not tell DD things (like his scar hurting, his dreams, his
lack of occlumency lessons, etc.) that are important and he even
recognizes that he should tell someone. But never does. And I think
that his lack of trust in everyone is something he should feel sorry
for. It's Harry's lack of trust, I think, that leads him into the
situation at the Ministry of Magic which is a situation that could
have easily been prevented. And I'm not saying that Harry holds all
the blame. There are certainly other people who hold a large chunk of
blame (Sirius, Snape, and DD among others). But if Harry had been a
little more trusting a lot of problems would have been avoided (and we
wouldn't have had a story, but that wasn't part of the questions was
it? *g*)

Cheers,
Christy