[HPforGrownups] Re: What very Bad Thing Does Harry Do in HBP?

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 123543

> > Vivamus:
> > Please excuse me if this is incorrect, but I think someone in here 
> > posted a recent quote from JKR, to the effect that Harry does 
> > something very bad in book six.
> > 
> > Sherry now:
> >  
> > I haven't read this, but if it is true, it would seem to be 
> a kind of 
> > stale plot device now.  >
> 
> > Alla:
> > Vivamus, I haven't read it either. Could you provide the 
> link, please?
> > 
> 
> Valky:
> I could be wrong, but this might actually be a residual of 
> the Mooseming posts excitement over christmas.
> I recall a mooseming thread that was revived in which Jo 
> (Sturgess) posited that Harry would do something very bad in 
> HBP, it came up at the time when speculation was high that 
> these posts might be canon. 
> That's quite possibly what Vivamus is remembering. 
> Sorry to burst the bubble. Ouch 
> 
> Valky (back to earth since Jo.sturgess, revealed her true identity
> recently.) :D


Sigh.  Time to eat some crow, here.  This is what I get for posting a
brainstorm before researching it.

Valky is right.  Here is the quote:

> I would like to add to this theory and say Cho, the betrayer, will 
> come to a sticky end (probably inadvertently by Harry's hand, although
> this is based on a different theory that Harry is going to do 
> something very bad in the next book).

And yes, it was by mooseming, as part of the discussion about the butterfly
on JKR's website changing colors from Ravenclaw to Slytherin, and "cho"
meaning "butterfly" in Japanese and Korean.

My apologies for painting that fish red.

I do think it likely, however, that Harry will do something really bad in
HBP.  He hasn't really done anything bad yet, although he could get in a lot
of trouble for trying to crucio Bellatrix, as finwitch suggested.  Still, he
was fighting a DE who was trying to kill him, and who was obviously taking
great pleasure in the thought of torturing people into insanity, AND who was
obviously much stronger and more capable than he was.  

His biggest screw up by far (IMO) has been going to the MoM despite all
warnings, but that's still a foolish mistake, not acting with evil intent.
He spent most of OOtP in rage and guilt, and now he is personally
responsible for Sirius' death.  We've talked before at length about his
grief process, but I think part of it is going to involve a conscious
rejection of doing the right thing.  I don't think he is going to make a
stupid mistake, I think he is going to deliberately do something that he
knows is very wrong and will cause serious harm.   

Vivamus, who was so taken in by the mooseming posts that he took much of the
comments to heart as canon, and won't be entirely convinced either way until
he reads the next book, sometime before sunrise on July 16.