CHAPDISC: HBP7, The Slug Club

[parcelmouthks]

No: HPFGUIDX 145912

AnitaKH:
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>   3.                    Compare this train scene with the early
train scene in OOP.  How do his feelings toward Neville and Luna
compare in the two scenes?  What does this scene do for our
understanding of the Harry in HBP?

parcelmouthks:
JKR speaks to this directly in her interview with MuggleNet and
The-Leaky-Cauldron. She says it's an indicator of how much Harry's
grown up: "One of the ways in which I tried to show that Harry has
done a lot of growing up — in "Phoenix," remember when Cho comes into
the compartment, and he thinks, `I wish I could have been discovered
sitting with better people,' basically? He's with Luna and Neville. So
literally the identical thing happens in "Prince," and he's with Luna
and Neville again, but this time, he has grown up, and as far as he's
concerned he is with two of the coolest people on the train. They may
not look that cool. Harry has really grown."