[HPforGrownups] Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger)

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 122005

On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 01:22 pm, AyanEva wrote:

>  It was a moment of fury and then it was gone. It's the sudden
> appearance and then seeming disappearance that I find nagging.

I was thinking last night about a particular incident while I was at 
school that seems a bit pertinent.  I look back on it as one of those 
leaps we make into maturity.  I was in year 10 - say around15?

My cat was run over by my Dad that morning.  It was horrible.  I cried 
and cried, my Dad felt awful and I was late to school.  It was math, 
and my teacher that year was probably one of the worst I ever had.  
When she asked why I was late I said "My Dad ran over my cat this 
morning."

Her response was "That's no excuse."

I looked at her and fully understood in that instant that there was no 
point getting angry or trying to explain further.  She was either 
incapable or unwilling to understand.  I suddenly felt a wave of cold 
fury run over me and I took a calming breath before I said levelly, 
"Then you will have to accept it as an explanation", snapped my mouth 
closed, turned and walked to my desk.

That was the first time I ever related to a teacher as an adult.  
Suddenly the playing field was level, and I no longer deferred, feared 
or prevaricated.  She was an idiot and in that moment she had no power 
over me.  The feeling didn't last, but I have never forgotten it.  It 
was a coming-of-of-age moment.

I wonder if Harry could have been having that sort of moment.

Jocelyn