[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's rapport with the HBP

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 162858

wynnleaf asked:
Sherry, I'm very curious about *why* you thought the Prince's work
(excluding Sectemsempra) indicated an unpleasant person??  I assume that you
would *not* consider the Trio unpleasant, yet throughout the books they have
used much less benign or innocuous spells on other students, than the ones
Snape created as a teenager.  So what was in about the Prince's work you
found so objectionable?  Obviously I don't mean Sectumsempra, but I gathered
from your comments that you felt that way well before that spell was
revealed.


Sherry answers:

It was Harry more than the Prince.  I also felt Hermione was reacting out of
jealousy, but the whole affinity with the HBP from Harry made me
uncomfortable.  The trio haven't done things maliciously to others in the
past, not without provocation, and I felt Harry's use of the spells and
jinxes was done sneakily.  I think I maybe relate more to Ginny's reaction,
that Harry should have known better than to put so much faith in a unknown
person in that book.  In some ways, throughout the book HBP, Harry seemed
very out of character to me, and most of that revolved around his
interactions with the book.  

As for the Snape giving as good as he got, and what Harry did or did not see
in his final detentions, I'm confident that Snape could have made sure Harry
didn't see any of his own detentions, while he was rubbing Harry's nose in
James' school boy actions.  That was a mean dirty thing to do.  

But that isn't really what I was talking about.  The whole Prince
personality bothered me, but it was because of how it seemed to affect Harry
in a negative way and make him a less innocent person somehow.  It's so hard
to put my finger on it, but I was uncomfortable all the way through, and I
did not figure out who the Prince was in the beginning, so I can honestly
say my negative feelings about Snape did not color that impression.

Sherry



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