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

[eggplant9998]

No: HPFGUIDX 122013


pippin_999 Wrote:

> Harry is feeling horribly guilty 
> over the death of Sirius 

Yes, and part of the blame can be put at Harry's feet, perhaps 2%, 
but Dumbledore and Snape should feel far more guilty, I'd put their 
responsibility well into the double digits.

> Harry seizes on the idea that Snape
> engineered the failure of the occlumency lessons 

I've read the book several times and I still think Harry might have 
been absolutely correct about that. Giving Snape every benefit of 
the doubt if he was not downright sabotaging the lessons was at 
least not teaching anywhere near as well as he was capable of, his 
heart wasn't in it. 

> and goaded Sirius into leaving the
> house, though Dumbledore tells him
> that Snape is not to be blamed 
> for those things. 

No, he only said Snape's goading was not the reason Sirius left the 
house, he did not excuse Snape's crummy Occlumency lessons. And 
anyway, I no longer consider everything Dumbledore says as gospel; 
we now know he can be disastrously wrong. However I do think 
Dumbledore was correct when he said Sirius's death was almost 
entirely his fault; I also think he was right when he said Harry
was not nearly as angry with him as he should be.

> At some level he knows it's not rational 

I think Harry's anger was very rational, even Dumbledore knew that.

> he's not cool when he says, "I'm trying
> to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir."

I though is was a very cool remark, in fact it ranks up there
with another famous remark by Harry, Dirty Harry that is:
"Go ahead punk, make my day!"

Eggplant