Harry Draco and bathroom.

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 162740

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>Eggplant:
> > When Harry entered that bathroom if he didn't have his full
> > concentration on protecting himself, if he gave even one thought to
> > the well being of his attacker then he is a hopelessly wimpy
> > goody-two-shoes who doesn't deserve to be leader of the DA, or even
> > leader of the Hogwarts Stamp Collectors Club.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> But Harry didn't.  Harry wasn't thinking about protecting himself at 
> all.  He stood there in shock watching Draco cry, stood in full view of 
> Draco while Draco attempted to pull himself together.  Stood without 
> moving until Draco finally looked up and spotted Harry staring at him 
> from the doorway.
> 

chrus now:

Betsy is right about canon, but I hope that Harry, in those few seconds, felt for Draco and 
wondered why he was crying. To be able to feel pity and love and understandement for 
your enemy and his problems it is *not* the behaviour of a "wimpy goddy-two-shoes who 
doesn't deserve to be (...) leader of Hogwarts Stamp Collectors Club. It is, on the contrary, 
what makes you a human being. Not a thug, not a video-game warrior. A human being. 
Why don't you read some war stories of WW2 about people on opposite camps being 
terribly sorry and thorn in two at the idea of killing someone else?