[HPforGrownups] Harry and the Law

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 151207





  "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:

  > Draco could make a reasonable argument that he 
  > was trying to protect himself from an aggressive stalker. 

  eggplant:
  Reasonable argument? All Harry did was walk into a boy's bathroom,
  something he had every right to do, and he was viciously attacked with
  a highly illegal Unforgivable curse. I don't understand why people
  think it would be interesting to have a hero who is so effete, so
  politically correct that when somebody is trying to kill him his first
  priority is the physical well being of the attacker. Boring! Stupid!
  Comical! Next time I hope Harry disembowels the bad guy.

  Give me Dirty Harry or give me death.


  kchuplis:

  Forgive me but.....these are my all time favorite posts. I just have to tell you as entertaining, exasperating, overly analytical and brilliant other posters may be, it is a post like this that makes my day. I have to agree, Harry did NOT get nasty until nasty was directed at him. I do admit that Petrificus totalus would perhaps have been a better choice, but may have only held off the inevitable because I don't think that Draco wanted Harry to EV-VER be able to recount that he was seen crying to A-NYbody. So, rather than have umpteen other confrontations of the two, JKR cut to the chase, gave Draco another reason to take Harry seriously as well as hate him, showed us what the sectumsempra curse did, showed us that Harry IS a conscionable person by obeying Snape's orders and being appalled by what he had done, even though it was his almost worst enemy and gave Harry even more reason to get sick of Snape before The Awful End. 

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