CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Chapter Thirty seven - The lost prophecy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 124184


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David & Laura" 
<cyclone_61032 at y...> wrote:
 
David: 
I thought the chapter was very well done. Harry's throwing of 
> DD's trinkets was too childish and out of character for my image of 
> Harry, but that would be my only criticism.

Geoff:
I wouldn't agree with you on this. I think JKR has got a great take 
on Harry's reaction; it encapsulates his feelings perfectly.

'Harry felt the white-hot anger lick his insides...

Harry turned around, shaking with rage.....

But words were no longer enough, smashing things was no more help; he 
wanted to keep running and never look back....'
(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" pp.726-27 UK edition)

I can remember my elder son, when he was about Harry's age - 
something would go wrong and he would go ballistic with rage. He 
would tear up sheets of work he had done and storm out of the room.

I can also remember one occasion, when I was with some friends while 
at school, absolutely seeing red and hurling books from a pile on the 
teacher's table at them.

Nope, teens can live on very short fuses; recycled teens like me can 
also have buttons marked "Danger do not push" :-)