[HPforGrownups] Outraged Harry ( was: Snape ... Dumbledore's sacrifice)

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149160


On Sunday, March 5, 2006, at 04:49 PM, Steve wrote:
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> bboyminn:
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> Well, we finally agree on something. I too found no problem with
> CapsLock!Harry. In fact, I can't see any other logical response to the
> situation. How could he NOT be angry and frustrated?
>
> As to the next book, once again, I too see DirtyHarry!Harry. I see him
> marching into the Ministry and demanding that they work with him on
> HIS terms. No posters boy public relations symbol; you tell me
> everthing you know and give me full access and full cooperation, and
> in return, I will tell you what I think you need to know when I think
> you need to know it.
>
> I don't think the Minister will take kindly to being treated in such a
> blunt way. But I think once Harry explains that either the Ministry is
> for him or they are against him, and if they are against him then they
> are for Voldemort, and if the Minister doesn't like that, then perhaps
> it's time for Harry to publish another article exposing how inept,
> uncooperative, and dangerous the Ministry's attitude is.
>
> In a sense, Harry will blackmail the Ministry into cooperation; 'Do as
> I say, or suffer the consequences'.
>
> Maybe it will happen that way and maybe it won't, but I can certainly
> see Harry getting fed up with the bureaucratic and political posturing
> and ineffective token actions, and finally deciding it's time to KICK
> SOME BUTT.

kchuplis:

I agree and see some foreshadowing of this. In OOP (Scholastic 
paperback pg. 737:

"Even through his  anger and impatience Harry recognized Hermione's 
offer to accompany him into Umbridge's office as a sign of solidarity 
and loyalty."

I found that choice of wording "a sign of solidarity and loyalty" to be 
extremely interesting. It really sounded as though we could almost 
begin to pinpoint this as the beginning of Harry as Leader. We go on to 
see it in the "rescue mission". We get more of a hint of it at the 
funeral in HBP. And Harry's extreme calm in the very last paragraph of 
that book rather reminds me of when he gathers himself in the graveyard 
and decides to come out fighting on his own terms. It seems to me that 
we will see a very determined!Harry, if not dirtyharry!harry in 7.  And 
a Harry with at least a small version of his own Order of the Phoenix. 
He doesn't seem to be letting the real OOP in on the horcrux situation 
(which could certainly change in 7) but that is not to say he won't be 
utilizing his own little army that he trained pretty thoroughly in OOP.