Thestrals Again

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No: HPFGUIDX 145728

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, dragonjcndm2 at a... wrote:

> This makes sense in the beginning of OOTP when Harry feels everyone
seems to 
> have deserted him. Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione, even Sirius, because he 
> practically hears nothing back from them all summer long. Even after
he arrives at 
> Grimmauld reunited with everyone, Harry is STILL angry at Ron and
Hermione after 
> they explained that they had promised Dumbledore they wouldn't
reveal too much 
> in their letters to him and trying to convince him that they wanted
to. Anger 
> which he expells later and then his noticing of the Thestrals.
> 
Actually I think that this was a different anger: is the very real
anger anybody would have felt when things were decided for Harry over
his head.  He -was- attacked by the dementors and now faced a cuurt
hearing instead of support, he -was- stuck at the Dursleys and he
-was- left out. No matter that Hermione and Ron had promised not to
tell, the fact that -they- knew and he did not while -he- was Nr 1. on
Voldemorts hit list hurt a lot, had just escaped him only weeks ago
and saw Cedric get killed. I think the hurting was real, the anger was
real, but it also was enlarged by the traumatic events he had witnessed. 

Basically, anger is often caused by powerlessness and in most of OotP
Harry was very powerless. 

Gerry