Saving Private Draco SPOILERS for Dresden files

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Pippin:
<SNIP>
> Harry's code was basically the same tit for tat as Malfoy's: love
> your friends, hate your enemies. Harry just had a longer list of
> friends.  It wasn't until Harry realized they were about to die in
> such a terrible way that he thought an enemy was worth saving in his
> own right.

Alla:

Right, agreed. You know, I keep wondering again what character 
development means exactly, since maybe we are again thinking of 
different definitions. (Not Pippin and me, but Montavilla and me and 
whoever thinks that Harry's character just did not develop).

Because to me character development's means any changes in the 
character throughout the book, no matter how small and those changes 
really do not have to be earth shattering for me to qualify as such.

Although since I completely agree with what Pippin wrote, I think 
learning to save your enemies qualifies like rather significant 
character change.

I guess all I am asking is why if you think that Harry did not change 
in the ways you (generic you) wanted him to change, that must mean 
that Harry did not change at all? ( This is from no particular post, 
but the general sense I get from several)

So he for example did not have the moment of reflection about how bad 
it was to use Crucio, or at least he did not have the moment that we 
are privy too, I still think that it is perfectly okay to imagine 
such moment, but he grew to value the lives of his enemies. That is 
not a change? Not in my book, even if it builds upon the quality he 
already had.

I am thinking about another wizard Harry from the Dresden files 
series whom I grew to adore. So far I had read all available ten 
books in these series and I happen to believe that Harry's character 
developed and rather significantly at that. But under the standards 
which are applied to our Harry's character I am not sure if Harry 
Dresden's character would be agreed upon as evolving.

You know why? Because Harry still **is** a good guy. He did already 
learned that his mentor is not a squeaky clean wizard Harry imagined 
him to be and it took him two or three books to come to terms with 
and forgive the guy. Although I wonder if Harry forgave himself first 
and foremost for putting Ebenezer McCoy on pedestal too high.

Oh yes and another, what I perceive to be a change in Harry Dresden's 
character is that he learned to ask for help. In the first books he 
is trying to do everything himself and fight all the evil under the 
sun himself because he wants to protect his friends so badly.

He learned to respect his friends' wishes when they say that they 
want in on the battle with evil.  

So what I am trying to say is that while Harry Dresden does not mind 
seeing good in people, during ten books I am still to see him 
deciding that he oh so critically misjudged a bad guy and had that 
angst moment that he was so wrong and his enemies are really not his 
enemies, etc, etc.

That must mean that he did not change at all I guess?

I mean, why the changes should be earth shattering to qualify as such?

Why does the fact that Draco Malfoy hesitates to recognize Trio is 
not a big change for him? Would he have hesitated several years ago? 
I do not think so. Only several months passed after Tower after all 
and I would assume that Draco is still changing.




> 
> Alla:
> > Oh and about Harry saving people he does not like. Um, I do not 
> > remember him  deciding to save Crabbe at all. 
> 
> Pippin:
> He does scan the room looking for Crabbe as well as Draco and Goyle.
> The text hints delicately that someone has already died, "seeking a
> limb or a face that was not yet charred like wood..."

Alla:

Thanks.