JKR and the boys

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 161536

lupinlore: 
> Well, I guess this is just one of those areas where many of us will
> never understand where the other side is coming from. 

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>  So, for instance, Harry is deeply
> affected by Cedric's death but he shrugs off Sirius' demise with an
> incredibly silly stiff-upper-lip speech.  Yeah, right.  All the
> issues between him and Dumbledore are swept firmly under the rug
> with three sentences.  Excuse me while I engage in incredulous
> laughter at the bad writing.

Amiable Dorsai:
You're right, I don't understand where you're coming from.

Did you really expect Harry, who would have learned not to cry before
he learned how to read, to do anything other than to suppress his
grief, to sweep it under the rug?  He hasn't "shrugged off" Sirius'
death, he's still suffering from it, and his problems with Dumbledore,
the night he and Dumbledore go on their little excursion to the
Birdbath of Doom.

He spends much of the book questioning Dumbledore's judgement, often
to his face.  He's so emotionally frazzled that he doesn't, at first,
understand what his feelings for Ginny mean; so compulsive--to the
point of obsession--that *Ron* tells him to chill about *Malfoy*.

By the end of the book, he's a ball of rage.  I think he dumped Ginny
as much to keep her from seeing that side of him as to protect her
from Voldemort--perhaps more so.

I thought it was excellent characterization.

Amiable Dorsai