[HPforGrownups] Re: Changed character perceptions (long)

[Peggy Kern]

No: HPFGUIDX 185036

Montavilla:
> Here's the big thing that turned me off to Harry: He dropped the
> D.A. The year before he (and Hermione) had asked a lot of their
> fellow students. They asked them to give up time, risk punishment
> and expulsion, in order to prepare themselves to fight Voldemort.
> I felt that Harry had a responsibility to those students, but when
> it became inconvenient for him, he simply dropped them.

Peggy:  I see the situation differently.  In HBP, Neville asked if they were 
going to have more D.A. classes, and Harry said they didn't need to, because 
they had a DDA teacher.  I got the impression he was doing it because they 
had no teacher, not as some extra thing to give them additional help in 
fighting Voldemort.  So it appeared to me he just didn't see a need to 
continue to teach them.

Peggy <who wonders what Snape would have thought of Harry giving additional 
DDA lessons>