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> > Sartoris22:
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> > I think I catch the irony. Geoff, and I understand your point. But does anyone ever call Harry on what he does? Does anyone ever change his or her opinion about Harry because of what he does?
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> Pippin: 
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> Hermione calls Harry on his cheating, McGonagall calls him on the crucio, Snape calls Harry on his arrogance, Dumbledore calls him on his anger when it is unjust. <HUGE SNIP>

Alla:

Oh beatiful post Pippin, but I wanted to add something from a little bit different angle. I agree with you that Harry is getting called on his various misgivings, whether we think it is sufficient or not.

But let's imagine for a second that he would not be getting called on any bad thing that he does by anybody in the book. I mean, I think he is, but certainly opinions differ on how strict different characters are on him. I think Snape is calling on him whem he deserves so or not, Mcgonagall is not particularly calling on him IMO, but again, let's imagine that NOBODY would call him on anything, ever.

But does that mean that we should consider him perfect?

I mean, us as readers are not going to think that cruciong somebody out of anger is okay (no matter how I for example feel that I can excuse what he did). Do we need the characters to say so?

Do we NEED the characters to say that oh, bad Harry for cheating? I know that, really, description of the action for me is enough to say that he is not doing a good thing.

If you had read Count of Monte Cristo, nobody of good characters there called Edmond Dantes bad person for exercising his elaborate revenge on those who wronged him. I felt that he had every excuse in the world to do so, so much he suffered, etc. But um, it is still revenge.

So, yeah, my two cents.

JMO,

Alla