A sandwich

[afn01288]

No: HPFGUIDX 178639

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > In the insatiable desire to be provocative some have found yet 
another
> > way to demonize Harry; apparently even after going through the
> > tortures of the damned to save the world asking for a sandwich as 
a
> > reward is being unforgivably selfish. As for Kreacher, Harry was 
far
> > more forgiving than I would have been considering that in any 
legal
> > system on the planet he would have been imprisoned for being part 
of a
> > murder conspiracy that caused the death of Harry's godfather. 
> > 
> > It's good to be provocative but if you push it too far you get 
silly.
> > 
> >  Eggplant

> 
> then Katie rplied:
> 
> I'm someone who is deeply disturbed by Harry's final remark 
regarding 
> Kreacher, and I am in no way attempting to be "provocative". I was 
so 
> shocked by that remark the first time that I read the book, that I 
was 
> completely taken out of the story by it. The *line* is provocative, 
IMO.
<snip>

afn:
The sandwich part was provocative and stood out, but what really 
stood out for me was that after a year of not being a Hogwarts 
student, Harry seemed to expect his old bed to be waiting for him.  
Since he wasn't enrolled that year, his old bed may have been re-
assigned to someone else. Rather than running away from school, he 
purposely chose not to attend his 7th year there.  Who's to say an 
incoming student might have needed Harry's old bed?

Maybe classmates and old teachers were reluctant not to save a place 
for him or make it a sort of monument, this doesn't seem very 
practical. So much has been made (and is interesting) about Kreacher 
and the sandwich after the Battle of Hogwarts, but the idea Harry 
still had a place in his former dormitory is what struck me.  Am I 
missing something here?

afn