Wands and Wizards...Again (Was: Epilogue ...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 183580

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> Leah: I assume that stubbing out a cigarette on a child only takes
> about two seconds. Ir's still torture. Harry can only have been
> Crucio'd in the Forbidden Forest for a very short time before Snape
> stepped in, but Rowling's description is of agonising pain. I would
> like to have read the reader reaction if Snape had said, "Carry on
> with that, Amycus (or whoever), as long as it's only for a little
> while, it's not torture".  As to Harry, he did not do 'what he had
> to do'.  As pointed out above, he had a number of options, all of
> which would have been more effective than the curse he employed.
>
> My concern here is not to excuse Amycus, who is indeed a
> thoroughly nasty piece of work, but with Harry's eagerness to put
> himself, however briefly, on the same level and with the eagerness
> of the author (either in person or through McGonagall) and some of
> the readership to excuse him on the grounds that what Harry does
has
> to be right.


Can I say that I totally, totally agree with this post.

The one thing which defeats me about the Harry Potter books is that
Harry, apparently, can do no wrong.  Harry can use unforgiveable
curses, but that's fine.  Harry can treat people as he has been
treated and hated himself, but that's fine, he will still do it with
other people.  (Sirius also suffered from this, as per his treatment
of Kreacher).

On the other hand, put such behaviour into the hands of, say, the
Malfoys, and this brands them totally evil, rotten to the core etc
etc.

For the first three books I enjoyed the characters as a whole, from
Order of the Phoenix onwards I got increasingly tired of Harry
himself, and his attitude and behaviour.  By the end of the series I
didn't like him at all.

Apparently it is fine for Harry to sneer, attack, be totally rude
(for example to Narcissa Malfoy in Half Blood Prince), but not for
anyone else to do it.

It spoils the books for me.  I think J K Rowling took a wrong turn
about half way through the series.  I am sad that some readers seem
to have taken that turn with her.

Kate