[HPforGrownups] Harry does cry Re: Of Sorting and Snape

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 175700

>
> houyhnhnm:
>
> It's not how the passages affected me the first time I
> read them, though.  Long before I ever started reading
> discussions on web sites, back when it just me and the
> text, the negative message about showing your feelings
> jumped out at me.  I figured it was a Brit thing.


montims:
and there was me thinking it was an American thing, everyone focusing on who
cries or doesn't cry enough...  Are there any other nationalities here who
would like to speak up about this subject from a national viewpoint?  Maybe
it is a Brit thing, but I see nothing admirable in people weeping per se,
and yes, maybe it is more admirable IMO to have a stiff upper lip and just
deal with a situation without tears...   There is not a lot of point in
discussing feelings in a war time situation...  I'm thinking back to the way
wives and girlfriends were supposed to behave in WW1 and WW2.  To bring it
to the modern day, what good would it do to have soldiers in Iraq giving way
to their feelings any time something bad happened?


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