Is Harry arrogant?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 123556


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Janet Anderson" 
<norek_archives2 at h...> wrote:
> Aisbelmon at h... 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.

Janet Anderson:
> 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?

Geoff:
I am inclined to agree with much of what Janet says. Looking back on 
my own teenage years (allowing for a foggy Pensieve!), certainly 
teenage boys have a feeling of immortality. We are becoming our own 
boss, we are physically almost fully grown, the world is before us, 
no ties, no major responsibilites. Accidents, disappointments, deaths 
are things which happen to other people and, of course, we are going 
to be great - we are going to change the world.

Harry arrogant? Nope. Just normal.

Coming down to earth is a process which takes over later......