Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective

[julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 165133


>
> > Magpie:
> <SNIP>
> > Hey, I'm "okay with it" too. I'm not horrified by Harry in the 
> scene. I 
> > liked Draco being sliced up (we Draco fans often love our 
> hurt/comfort). 
> > And I don't have to pretend Harry was afraid of being insane to 
be 
> okay with 
> > it either, which I don't think he was at all.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Pretend? I would say that assumption that Harry was horrified that 
> he would become insane after knowing what he was tortured at 
> Graveyard and what happened to Longbottoms has more canon support 
> that he was not.
> 

Julie:
This seems a bit ingenuous to me. Where does it ever seem that
Harry is the least bit afraid of Draco? And why would Harry
equate Draco, whom he's just found crying in the bathroom,
with Voldemort or the Death Eaters who tortured the Longbottoms?
Voldemort and the DEs acted with cold intent in those two
scenarios, while Draco is acting off pure emotion, just as
Harry was when he tried to crucio Bellatrix in the DoM. 
And this is Draco, who when he had Harry completely in his
power earlier in the year, stomped on Harry's face and broke
his nose ("That's for my father"). Ooh, that's some real nasty 
vengeance there, Draco...

I think Harry knew Draco's intent was to temporarily hurt him,
not to drive him insane or kill him. And Harry attacked right
back, understandably not wanting to experience that hurt, and
wanting to turn Draco's attempt to hurt back on him. Only it
turned out that Harry's intent and what actually happened 
weren't in sync. That's what threw him, what scared him, and
what he sincerely regretted. And good for him.

Julie