[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Harry arrogant?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 123499

Aisbelmon at hotmail.com said:

>I agree with what you say eggplant, but nevertheless Harry
>purposefully takes on bigger and more advanced scary foes than he
>should be able to handle, he doesn't think twice about that they
>might be too much for him to handle, so hence he has a faint sense
>of arrogance about him, like a soldier - a bulletproof mentality.

I would say this was an advanced example of the famous Gryffindor courage.  
Possibly combined with the teenage feeling of immortality.  And also, even 
when it occurs to him that he might (or probably will) lose, he maintains 
that he has to try to at least do *something* rather than run away, pretend 
nothing's wrong (like Fudge) or surrender to the other side (like Peter 
Pettigrew). Remember when he told Ron and Hermione that he might die 
fighting Voldemort over the Sorcerer's Stone or hiding in Privet Drive, but 
either way he would never go over to the Dark Side?


Janet Anderson