Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger)

ms_luna_knows klevasseur at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 15 00:45:48 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 121986


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AyanEva" <ayaneva at a...> wrote:
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> AyanEva wrote: 
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> Harry's rush of anger always strikes me
> as odd and almost out of place. 
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> Eggplant responded:
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> I was just surprised Harry didn't get angry much sooner.In the last 
> 5 years at school 3 of Harry's teachers had tried to kill him <snip>
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> AyanEva says now: 
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> Yes, but I'm only referring to the context of that particular moment,
> not cumulative. And that's another reason why I was suprised at Harry;
> he hasn't thrown a tantrum yet despite everything that he's been
> through, but when he does get angry, it's at a very odd moment.
> Nothing out of the ordinary was occuring, yet he inwardly flies off
> the handle. That and I still can't figure out why he blames Snape for
> Sirius' death. I'm of the opinion that it was actually Harry's fault,
> in a round about sort of way (forgetting the mirrors, getting suckered
> in by the dream, charging recklessly into the MOM). But as one who
> likes to visit the 'Prince of Lies' wearing my FEATHERBOA, while
> begging for 'Mercy,' I may be biased in favor of Snape. *ducks things
> thrown at her by Sirius fans*
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> big snip> 
> AyanEva

I'm going to try to redeem myself a bit after my previous *silly* post to this thread.  I have 
said before, and I don't think anyone was listening or even read the post, that Harry is a 
teenager...14 or 15 at this point.  Being a teenager he is going through puberty and 
therefore has a bit more built up angst than a *normal* non pubesent (sp?) person.  I have 
first hand knowledge of this type of build up and *out of nowhere* blow up/explosion of 
emotion that can come out of a hormone driven teenage boy.  (I have a 13 year old living 
under my roof at this very moment, and I have no idea who is going to come out of his 
room, it could be the very sweet, nice boy, or the angry *everyone hates me* boy, or the 
*i'm mad as hell and I don't know why* boy....you get the picture.)  Anyway, I believe that 
JKR must also have intimate knowledge of how a teenage boy reacts and is using this 
knowledge with Harry's emotions.   I think it is very simple in a way.  Teenagers blow off 
all the time, Harry is actually holding it together remarkably well, considering all he has 
gone through.  
With regards to the blaming Snape for Sirius's death....again, the teenage mind works in 
very strange ways.  And to Harry's way of thinking Snape should have tried harder to help 
Harry, despite his feelings toward Harry...and I believe that is why Harry blames Snape.  If 
Snape had continued with Harry's occulmency lessons, Harry wouldn't have seen the 
vision/dream, Harry wouldn't have tried to save Sirius, Sirius wouldn't have gone to the 
MoM to save Harry and Sirius wouldn't have died.   It's just the way a teenager's mind 
works! 

Ms. Luna







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