"Some won't like it".

[madorganization]

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> Lupinlore:
> But everything he is thinking there is true, madorganization! 
> Harry DOES have more right to know what's going on than either
> Ron or Hermione do.  There is nothing wrong with feeling 
> entitled when you genuinely ARE entitled, which Harry most 
> definitely is.  If he did not think that way it would be silly
> and unrealistic, as well as untrue.


Alisha:
I don't think it is true.  Now, we as readers know, now, that Harry 
is entitled to more information than he gets, but this is because we 
know:

1) The prophecy.  We know that Harry is destined to defeat 
Voldemort, so we think he should have all the information he can get 
to help him in this task

2) The title of the series.  We all know that all the books are 
called "Harry Potter and..."  We know there will be seven books and, 
even before the prophecy, we could surmise that, at the end of the 
seventh book, Harry would defeat Voldemort.

However, at this point in the story, Harry doesn't know either of 
these things.  Yes, he has faced more than Ron or Hermione.  Yes, 
Voldemort is trying to kill him.  These things are true and valid, 
but since when do either of them make him more entitled to 
information?  Especially when he knows that they /can't/ send him 
any pertinent info via owl.  He has been told by Molly that DD has 
his reasons for sending Harry back to the Dursley's.  LV even told 
him in the graveyard that he cannot reach him while Harry is with 
his relatives.  I realize that throughout OotP Harry comes to 
distrust DD because DD won't talk to him, but this is not the case 
at the beginning of the book.  Harry has come to trust DD over the 
last four books.  He may not always confide in him, but, generally, 
when DD says something, Harry takes it as true (Snape having truly 
changed sides, for instance), even when DD doesn't divulge his 
reasons.  So why the sudden, sullen sulking over a situation no one 
can change?

Alisha - using my last post of the day way too early for me to stay 
sane for the whole rest of it.