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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122007


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AyanEva" 
<ayaneva at a...> wrote:

> My only other explanation is that he's projecting his own 
problems onto Snape.<

Pippin:
Of course he is!  Harry is feeling horribly guilty over the death of 
Sirius, partly because he failed at occlumency, but mostly, I think, 
because of this, "Sirius had risked everything, always, to see 
Harry, to help him..." (OOPch 36) 

 It would be too painful for Harry ( and also, I gather, for some of 
us listies) to acknowledge that Harry had some part in the failure 
of the lessons, and that Sirius came to the MoM  because Harry 
needed him. Instead, Harry seizes on the idea that Snape 
engineered the failure of the occlumency lessons and goaded 
Sirius into leaving the house, though Dumbledore tells him that 
Snape is not to be blamed for those things.  IMO, the surge of 
rage Harry feels toward Snape is really Harry's own anger at 
himself. 

At some level he knows it's not rational, still, he's not cool when 
he says, "I'm trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir." 
The adverb Rowling applies is "fiercely." He's still angry when he 
goes to talk to Hagrid, and doesn't really settle down until he's 
had a good cry by the lake.

Pippin