hating/loving Harry

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 183594

"only4groups2008" wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183580>:

<< 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. >>

Oh, no, there are plenty of other characters for whom it is fine to do
those things. 

The author seems to think it's cute and attractive of Ginny to walk
the corridors hexing anyone she doesn't like, and fly her broomstick
straight into Zacharias Smith because his Quidditch commentary was
snotty. 

There are quite a few readers who excused everything Snape ever did
since he first swooped into the Potions classroom and made that speech
about the beauty of the softly simmering cauldon, and most of them
agree with you about Harry, altho' some think Harry was a bad guy from
the first time we saw him interacting with Dursleys, not just from
halfway through the series.

Various other readers give James and/or Sirius a pass for behavior
that disgusts most of the Snape fans. Such as making excuses for them
bullying young Severus ("Snape's Worst Memory") when even Harry
disapproved of it. 

You can count me in that group, because I feel sorry for poor Sirius
locked up in that awful house, and don't understand why some listies
hate him ... delete that, I know they hate him because Snape hates him
... why some listies judge him to be a bad person because of self-pity
 and being rude to Kreachur in response to Kreachur's rudeness to him
and his friends. It may not be *admirable* behavior, but I find it
*excusable* and not all of his personality.

"only4groups2008" wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183582>:

<< because 'our hero' Harry, was little different from Voldermort, in
behaviour and thought. >>

That's a bit much. 

When Voldemort was angry at the bad news from Gringotts, he killed his
own followers, en masse and at random, and Bellatrix's hurry to get
out of the room indicates that she didn't expect him to spare even her
from his lethal temper tantrum. Harry has had tantrums, but throwing a
badge at Ron's head cannot be compared with AK'ing a dozen or two
dozen by-standing followers.

It's pretty clear that Voldemort enjoys killing people just because he
enjoys killing people, when he's not even angry and has no strategic
purpose for killing them. 

Voldemort appears to care about Nagini, and would try to protect her
even if she wasn't his Horcrux and his weapon, but there is no human
he cares about, not even Lucius or Bellatrix.