"Some won't like it"

[madorganization]

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I just felt the need to jump in here and explain a little of why I 
personally didn't like Harry in OotP.  It wasn't that he was angry.  
I actually liked that about him.  It /did/ make him seem more 
realistic.  He needed to explode because so much crap has happened 
to him in the past 4 years.  He had every right to be angry at 
Dumbledore for ignoring him.  He was understandably pissed at his 
friends for not keeping him informed.
What I didn't like about him was his feeling of entitlement.  I 
don't have my book with me as I'm at work right now, but I got the 
feeling that most of Harry's moodiness stemmed from his attitude 
of "I'm Harry Potter!  I deserve to know these things!"  My second 
favorite part of the book (after McGonagall's awesomeness 
in "Careers Advice") was when Phineas Nigellus finally told Harry 
off.  
Yes, Harry is special.  Yes, he's the only one to have gone through 
what he's gone through.  Yes, he did apologize when Ginny called him 
on his idiocy.  The thing that upset me most about Harry was that, 
after four years of cringing when people looked at his scar and 
wishing that people would stop gawking at him in the corridors and 
putting his name in the paper, he suddenly decides to play the fame 
card.  I know he's been through a lot in the few months before we 
see him in book 5, but I don't see that this particular attitude 
change was well constructed.  Anger in this situation is natural, 
his sudden embrace of "Harry Potter-ness" is not.

Alisha- who is glad she has a distinct shortage of 15-year-old boys 
in her life.