[HPforGrownups] Re: Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 174586

Brett Hale blessed us with this gem On 06/08/2007 06:11:

> for those parents out there who are not perfect; have you ever behaved
 > badly and disciplined out of anger? Later, you find yourself in a
 > position where you needed to discipline again, and your past
 > behavior guided the next 'discipline session'?

Well, I've promised myself I'm quitting the Unforgivables discussion, 
but I understand what you're getting at here. Not from personal 
experience, because this is one point I am *VERY* carefult with my 
children on. I NEVER discipline (and never have disciplined) when I'm 
angry. I walk away. I don't mean to hold myself up as a paragon of 
virtue; it's simply because I know my weaknesses and live in virtual 
terror of them that I've taught myself to flee at their first flush.

So, OK, what does that say about Harry? I guess it's a little difficult 
for me to accept him cracking under the strain of seeing McGonagall spat 
  on when he has clearly demonstrated his ability to handle himself in 
much tougher and more dire situations.  If JKR had wanted that to be the 
point, she could easily have written the scene that way. Give Harry a 
roomful of AK-wielding DEs, and McGonagall in immanent danger of death, 
and his cracking becomes understandable (perhaps even defensible). But 
all we get is a mouthful of spittle.

Lee Kaiwen (who now really IS going to bow out. Or not. Umm, yeah.)