Harry's Characterization

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 163485


> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> But from an internal perspective, we have a very different
> view. We must ask ourselves 'what should Harry reasonably
> do under the circumstance', not how will the story resolve
> itself. From Harry's internal perspective, he is the 
> hopeless underdog, and THAT is truly something he must do
> something about. From his perspective he needs to gain 
> many skills and do so very quickly. In my opinion, to do
> otherwize is irrational.

Pippin:
Do you remember Fake!Moody's advice in GoF? "Play to your
strengths?" Harry and Dumbeldore know that's what Harry
has to do. Harry's strength is not as a duellist.
Unfortunately, after a promising start, Harry hit a brick wall 
with occlumency. This time the problem wasn't
a lack of confidence, motivation, or anything else that Harry
or his teachers could address. It was, according to JKR, a 
lack of ability. As Snape demonstrated at the end of HBP,
without occlumency, one can only be a mediocre duellist.

So that's that, and Harry will have to seek to defend himself
and defeat his opponents in other ways. What Harry does
have  are his immense spiritual gifts and his ingenuity. 
They will enable him to understand Voldemort much better
than Voldemort understands him, and to take advantage
of Voldemort's mistakes. That is what Dumbledore was
trying to show with his little history lessons, IMO.

Harry doesn't need to learn to 'kick ass' and he knows it,
though he tends to forget in his rage at his losses.
The WW's graveyards are full of kickass wizards who owe 
their presence there to Voldemort. 

Pippin