"Some won't like it".

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No: HPFGUIDX 129927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "madorganization" <alishak at s...>
wrote:

> Alisha:
> Actually, I was just starting book 5 again last night when I came 
> across the first incident of this feeling of entitlement.  When 
> Harry is moping about not getting all the information he'd like 
> from his friends (even though, as they have repeatedly explained, 
> it would be a security risk for them to tell him anything), he
doesn't reason that he has as much right as Ron and Hermione to 
> know what's going on.  He thinks he has more.  Again, I don't have 
> my book with me, but there's a lot of "wasn't it him who..." 
> thinking going on.  /He's/ the one who did this.../he's/ faced 
> more than either of them...Voldemort killed /his/ parents.  This 
> is the attitude in Harry that I, personally, resent.

The same here. I can imagine him feeling this way, but that does not
mean I have to like it, or condone it. He is right to want answers,
but his - I am HARRY POTTER attitude - deserves a kick in the butt. 

What I also did not like in him in OoP is his refusal to use his
brains. From the other books, I never got the feeling he was stupid.
Lazy, yes. But never stupid. But with the occlumency, where someone
HAS given him all the anwers, he still follows what he wants, instead
of using his brains. Now there have been suggestions that LV is
messing with his emotions. But I am not convinced this is true. LV
gives him the dreams, and messes with his emotions in the dreams. But
Harry does a very good job on his own in fooling himself that what he
wants to have is the right thing. 

I like the Harry who is teaching the DA though. 

Gerry