DD's Knowledge (was Re: Nice vs. Good, honesty,)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 153290

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>

> 
> It seems to me that a lot of Harry's troubles come from trying to
> parent the adults.  If he hadn't tried to cover up Hagrid's dragon
> problems, he would've been able to tell McGonagall the truth.
> If he hadn't been trying to protect McGonagall, he could have
> told her about Umbridge. If he hadn't been trying to protect 
> Sirius, he could have used the Mirror. In fact, if he'd  let Sirius 
> and Lupin deal with Snape and then with Pettigrew in PoA,
> a whole boatload of troubles might have been avoided. 
> 

And yet we have the claim that the series is not very friendly toward 
childhood and that Harry's duty is to grow up as fast as possible and 
become a parent himself rather than trying to search for parental 
figures.  Seems like this is saying that Harry has been doing TOO good 
of a job of growing up fast and needs to look around a lot harder for 
parental figures and stay a child longer.  

As for the idea that DD thinks Harry is a bully well, I just don't buy 
it.  That seems to rely awfully heavily on castles built in the air.  
And the idea that he would turn a blind eye to Snape and the scar 
quill because he thinks it's Harry's "just desserts" postulates a kind 
of manipulative, Spider!Dumbledore (not to mention a Superignorant!
Dumbledore) that we haven't seen in a long time, and that I would have 
thought the revelations of HBP would have put to rest permanently.


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