Harry does cry Re: Of Sorting and Snape

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 175708

montims:

> and there was me thinking it was an American thing, 
> everyone focusing on who cries or doesn't cry enough..

houyhnhnm:

Well, it is. :-} Excessively so; I'm well aware.

I've wondered before now if some of the differences in 
interpretation by readers could be due to cross-cultural 
misperceptions and I think in this case (the importance to 
put on the fact that Harry feels he must not cry)  that 
might be so.  American readers might ascribe a different 
significance to it than British readers.

I guess the test would be to lurk awhile on a non-English 
fan sites and see if there is a difference in the kind of 
issues that come up.