Harry and Dumbledore in HBP

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 131807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
> wrote:
>  What do you think will be the nature of Harry and DD's 
relationship 
> in HBP? I'm not talking so much whether it will be student/teacher, 
> etc. but rather the emotional tone of the relationship. Loving, 
> stormy, distant, etc.
> > 
> 
> Tonks:
> I think that Harry will mature. And in the course of this he and DD 
> will be closer than in OOP, about like in GOF, but with a deeper 
> understanding.  I don't think that Harry will be angry for more 
than 
> maybe a quarter of the book. 

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Geoff:
I believe that Harry's realtionship to Dumbledore will improve, for 
two reasons.

Firstly, I speak from the experience of being someone who tended to 
live on a short fuse in younger days.

On the occasions when I really became volcanic, after the sheer 
emotional intensity of blowing my top, I usually found that once I 
had cooled down - sometimes over a lenghty period of time - I could 
never reach the same pitch of anger over the same thing again; the 
sheer outburst wiped something out of the equation and I would move 
back some way towards the former situation.

I wonder whether Harry will go the same way. He may still be 
suspicious of Dumbledore and grudging in his acceptance of what was 
said but I feel that relations will become less strained and bridges 
will be repaired.

I also do not feel that they can be returned to where they have been 
in the past because of Harry's increasing maturity and we all know, I 
think, that our relationships with close adults such as parents or 
grandparents have to change as we approach adulthood. Not for worse 
necessarily but because of the shifts in our relative positions vis-a-
vis one another.