Harry not kind and loyal anymore? Was:Re: "Some won't like it"

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 129841

> Alina: 
> I think right you summarized why I'm one of the people that has a 
big
> problem with Angry!Harry - he's not kind and loyal anymore! He keeps
> on getting on his friends' cases, lashing out at them and acting 
like
> they're doing wrong by him. "What do they understand, stupid Ron,
> stupid Hermione, I'm the great Harry, how dare they act like they 
> know anything about how hard my life is."
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Well, certainly Harry is not very kind for the most part of OOP, 
> IMO. But I am one of those who think that besides the fact that it 
> is very understandable phase of the teenager development, Harry was 
> justified in acting the way  he did.
>>> Alla:
> 
> On the contrary, I think that throuout the book Harry's reality was 
> he knew that other people know things he does not and won't tell 
him.
> 


Megan:

I agree. Harry is what, 15 years old during this book, an age at 
which his hormones are raging. He has seen someone die. Seen the 
ghost of his parents. Barely got past Voldermort... All these things 
only 2-3 months before. He was then sent back to a place he despices, 
where people despise him, only to be kept in the dark by his friends, 
who send him tantilizing letters. It does not matter if they were 
having fun, they were together and he was alone.

Harry is going through what every teenager goes through. Mood-swings. 
Confusion. Unexplained feelings and assuming the world revolved 
around himself. He is not getting much from the others. 1) they are 
the same age and going through "similar" feelings, 2) Dumbledore is 
not paying him ANY attention, not only that, IGNORING him and not 
even looking at him, which is worse. 3) He has a HORRIBLE new teacher 
(Umbridge) that, instead of teaching the children what they need to 
know about magical protection, hid the truth, and punished the kids 
for speaking out. 4) He was forced, without any real explination, to 
take lessons from a professor he hates, whom hates him. Snape gave 
him no real instructions, nor did anyone else, on how and why he was 
supposed to do Occulemency.

These are just a few examples on why I believe Harry acts the way he 
did. Yes, I do not like Harry as much in this book, but, I understand 
these feelings having been 15 once upon a time. This is why I love 
this book so much-- Harry is acting his age, and Jo writes the book  
accurately from the point of view of a 15 year old boy. 

*Megan goes back to Lurking in the shadows of her cave, waiting for 
the 6th book"