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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 122034


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:

SSSusan:
> Geoff stated, way earlier in this thread:
> > I tend to interpret Harry's comment as being a change from a rush 
> of hatred to a cold fury and giving a sarcastic answer very tongue-
> in-cheek; it is almost a way of telling Snape to get stuffed without
> actually being blatantly rude....<
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> I think Geoff is right.  I believe it does make sense that this 
> progression of emotions could have reasonably occurred, that it's 
> not really "odd" at all.  
> 
> I mean, let's look at what all is in this tiny little scene.  There 
> stands Draco, Harry's school nemesis for 5 years, threatening to > 
kill Harry because of "what he's done" to his father.  So we have 
> Draco and all he's represented as Harry's personal tormenter for 5 
> years, as well as a reference to Lucius, whom Harry hates for his 
> role in the diary scheme and in the MoM battle, which led to 
Sirius' 
> death.  We also have Snape, Harry's staff-level personal tormentor, 
> the man whom Harry believes detests every fiber of his being and 
> whom he believes has punished him unfairly over & over & over 
again, 
> the man whom he believes was leaving him more vulnerable to 
> Voldemort with his Occlumency lessons, the man who hated Sirius and 
> whom Harry probably suspected of doing a little victory dance over 
> Sirius' death.  
> 
> All this comes together in this one brief moment.  Projection, 
rage, 
> fury, frustration, grief, perhaps a thrill at what he *could* do to 
> Draco.  How might we see him reacting to all this?  Just what Geoff 
> said:  a rush of hatred towards Draco & Lucius; cold fury for 
> Snape's appearing, yet again, to foul things up for Harry -- AND 
> representing fault in Harry's mind for Sirius' death.  Then there's 
> the "snap" or revelation that Jocelyn referred to – sort of an "I 
> don't give a shit anymore" moment – and thus the sarcastic or smart-
> aleck, think-whatever-you-want-Snape moment where he says, "Trying 
> to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, Sir."
> 
> It's true that I could've seen Harry *stick* with the anger & rage 
> he was feeling a moment before, but the switch to this last emotion 
> or tone also makes sense to me, too.  It's not that he's not angry 
> any more; it's how he's going to deal with it that's adjusted.

Geoff:
I equated this to the way I would probably have behaved in my teenage 
years in a situation where I had perhaps blown my top previously and 
reached a position of having a cold determination to get a point 
over; there is a difference between being blazing mad [which as a 
redhead in those days I was good at :-)] and a good dug-in deep-down 
intention not to let the other guy get the last word....

When I was in the Sixth Form, we used to have a pseudo-Latin 
saying, "Nil illegitimus carborundum" - "Don't let the b****** grind 
you down". I think Harry's mind was moving on those lines.

I'm /much/ more polite nowadays.

I hope this all makes sense.