Harry's character development

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 139741

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:



> 
> This young man is going to have to go out into the world and live as 
a wizard once the final battle is complete.  He is, at this point, 
hardly prepared for that world at all, IMO.  At this point, he's going 
to have to live with one foot in the WW and the other in the MW.  


With the single exception of Snape, who's motives are deeply suspect, 
I see no evidence whatsoever that any of the Hogwarts' staff agrees 
with you, nor do any of Harry's friends in the wizarding world.  They 
all seem to be quite confident of Harry's ability to function as an 
adult wizard when the time comes.  In fact Dumbledore, surely an 
authority on the Wizarding World if ever there was such a thing, seems 
to believe that Harry will rise to a VERY high level of functioning.

The fact is most people learn by finding answers to practical problems 
that they immediately face.  Most people do not read books, visit 
research libraries, or engage in long discussions with knowledgable 
friends over situations and subjects with which they are not 
immediately involved.  When they need to know about something or are 
faced with having to do something, they learn about it. And these 
people function just fine in society, and in fact tend to monopolize 
its highest and most powerful strata. Schools happen to be structured 
and staffed by people who like books and research -- meaning people 
who are unusual with regard to most of humanity.

> 
> My only hope for Harry is that JKR is going to write book 7 without 
him needing to know any of this stuff. By the end he won't be *living* 
in either world so he won't need to know it then, either.  
> 

Maybe he will be living, maybe he won't, I wouldn't dare predict 
(although my guess is that he will survive, it would just be too much 
of a downer if he didn't).  And something tells me that if he does 
survive he will live and function in the Wizarding World perfectly 
well.  I frankly haven't seen a shred of evidence in canon that 
indicates that he won't.


Lupinlore