[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: DH6, THE GHOUL IN PYJAMAS

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 178808


On 2007, Nov 03, , at 04:15, nirupama76 wrote:

>> bboyminn wrote:
>>
>> I think to the extent that they are able to, the understand
>> what they are getting themselves into, but I think their
>> understanding is very warped. I'm sure they realize that Harry
>> is withholding information from them, and that leads them to
>> believe that he and Dumbledore discussed and exchanged a lot
>> more information than they actually did. I think they are
>> surprised to find that Harry is just as lost as they are.
>>
>> As to their sacrifice, I think it is very brave and loyal of them.
>> They certainly know there will be great danger, and they willingly
>> go to face it. That is commendable.
>
> Niru:
>
> But Harry wasn't withholding information from them. As he tells Ron
> during their fight, he was straight with them from the start. They
> just assumed that Dumbledore would have told Harry more then he did.
>
> As for their sacrifices... I expected no less of Ron and Hermione.
> They've backed up Harry ever since PS and they were there for him
> again. They are brave and good. True friends indeed.

I think it is interesting that bboyminn thinks that Harry was
withholding information from them and Niru doesn't.  I always
got the impression that people thought Harry was withholding
information, because he was reluctant to talk about things with
most people.  But I don't think this is the case with Ron and
Hermione.  He has, throughout the series, told them nearly
everything.

Sometimes we don't see it on the page - it just says something
like "he told them all about his dream", but I never got the sense
that he was withholding important information.  There are a few
times in canon where he withholds a portion of the information.
The fact that, in a dream, VM was planning on killing someone,
he told them.  The fact that it was him, he withheld.

But Ron and Hermione are his sounding boards.  It seems
to me that Harry tells them everything he knows - sometimes
after the fact, but inevitably.  I do think that Ron and Hermione
might be wishfully thinking that there is more to what he knows
about the Horcruxes, but, though I think they might expect it,
I think it is unfair.

But, I also think that both of them would have come along,
even if they had realized that they also knew essentially
everything Harry knew.

Laura
-- 
Laura Lynn Walsh    lwalsh at acsalaska.net
http://llwcontemplations.blogspot.com



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