Harry had to fail - Harry's Tragic Flaws/ Neville's sufferings

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Jen:

For those who pity him as well and
> > feel that he is justified, I give you Neville as an example, who 
> has 
> > had his share of tragedies and has never pulled the "You
> > don't 
> > understand/Woe is me" card that Harry pulled with his friends on 
> > multiple occassions in OotP. 

Phoenixgod: 
<SNIP>
> First of all, Neville hasn't suffered more than Harry, and 
secondly 
> Neville has a crapload of his own problems to deal with. He is 
> deeply self pitying, but his self esteem is so low that he doesn't 
> bother complaining to anyone because he doesn't think it'll do any 
> good. 

Alla:

Oh, absolutely. I love Neville. I love his character development and 
if he were a little more developed from the beginning, he would have 
been my second favorite child character after Harry. ( Although I am 
quite happy  with what Neville become).

Said all that, I cannot even compare his sufferings  and Harry's, 
although I will concede that Neville comes  the closest to Harry in 
the amount of misery he went through.

Neville did not have Dursleys in his life though, although yes, he 
did have that wonderful uncle of his. :-)


  

Phoenixgod:
<SNIP>
 Harry is going to 
> win because he is human and Voldemort isn't. I think if Harry 
> becomes to much of a thinker he's going to lose some of his 
> essential Harryness, which is a person who looks before he leaps 
> because of his saving people thing. And thats why I like him!
> 


Alla:

And again I agree. Of course we don't know what the ending is going 
to be, but  I think that "it is your heart that saved you" ( 
paraphrase) is going to play major role somehow.

I sincerely hope that while Harry  will "master his emotions" :-) he 
will never shut them down completely, otherwise he maybe become like 
one of his teachers we all know :-) and THAT I hope won't happen. :)

Great post, Phoenixgod.

Just my opinion,

Alla.