Readers POV/ was Writers Fiat

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phoenixgod2000:
>In fact, I still can't 
>understand why people didn't like Capslock!Harry in OOTP. Because I 
>completely bought into his frustration and felt it alongside him.  
>When I got online to see what other people thought about the book, I 
>was shocked to see so many people who didn't like Harry in that 
>book. I honestly thought he didn't go far enough in his anger. Never 
>once in the book was I ever angry at him. I was only ever angry on 
>*behalf* of Harry.  I feel such strong emotions that I have only 
>ever read OOTP one time. I just get too angry over all of the adult 
>characters letting Harry down to reread the book. I can see all the 
>mistakes coming and it just kills me.

As usual, I agree with you completely.  I totally sympathized with 
Harry's rage - he actually runs the gamut of emotion in this book: 
frustration (kept in the dark all summer), depression (his friends 
making no attempt to fill him in), horror (dementor attack), fear 
(possible expulsion), jealousy (Ron and Hermione made prefects), 
confusion (Dumbledore's behavior), and all of that is merely at the 
beginning of the book.  Fill in any of the parens with Umbridge, 
Snape, Cho, Hagrid, and so on.  Harry's emotions build to the 
breaking point and the last straw is the death of Sirius, for which 
he also adds a massive amount of guilt to his load.  I found his 
anger to be perfectly justified - what was out of character for me is 
Dumbledore's refusal to give Harry information - he should have 
explained WHY he was avoiding Harry and he should have let Harry know 
WHY the lessons with Snape were important.  Very frustrating.  What 
surprised me when I read it the second time was when Harry was trying 
to find someone to warn about Sirius being "captured" and he later 
berated himself for not even thinking about Snape... well, I never 
thought about Snape, either!

Nicky Joe