Harry Cunning or Manipulative?

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 148577

  
Jen wrote:
(snipped) but I just don't register Harry 
wheedling any info out of anyone. That just came at me blind. Does 
it seem out of the blue for you? Or anyone else? Until Slughorn's 
memory, and the lovely Felix Felecis, I'd never seen Harry play 
anyone like a drum! 
   
  Catherine responds:
   
  In that passage, it says he has too much experience *trying* to wheedle information out of reluctant people. It never says anywhere that he was successful. If not it would have read "wheedling information out of people". Harry has not been very good at getting what he wants (as other people have pointed out) until FF. He has untapped abilities, perhaps, but he certainly was pretty lousy at subtlety prior to that scene.
   
  Catherine 
  (who apologises for all spelling mistakes, but has just finished a 3 might shifts and has not slept yet. Her brain...not functioning at an optimal level...)