DH reread CH 18 - 19

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When I read Chapter 18 before I did not think that Harry had much right to be angry at Dumbledore for not sharing his past with him. I mean, do not get me wrong, I always thought that Harry has a million and million more reasons to be angry at Dumbledore if nothing else then for not sharing the past that actually concerns HARRY, like the identity of the eavesdropper, like the tiny thing about the Prophecy, etc. And there are also other events that Dumbledore involved Harry without asking him, so I think Harry has plenty righteous reasons to be angry, just not about Dumbledore sharing HIS PAST with him.

I totally thought and think that Dumbledore's past with Grindelwald was not Harry's business.

But when I read this quote, I do not think Harry IS really angry about not sharing Dumbledore's past, I think he is projecting the reasons he has every right to be angry about and he is expressing them here IMO:

"Maybe I am!" Harry bellowed, and he flong his arms over his head, hardly knowing whether he was trying to hold in his anger or protect himself from the reasons of his own dissillusionment. "Look what he asked of me Hermione! Risk your life, Harry! And again! And again! And don't expect me to explain everything, just trust me blindly, trust that I know what I'm doing, trust me even though I don't trust you! Never the whole truth! Never!" - p.295


Ok, I confess, I think that the writing in the Silver Doe is freaking BEATIFUL.

"And then the source of the light stepped out from behind an oak. It was a silver-white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoof prints in the fine powdering of snow. She stepped towards him, her beatiful head  with its wide, long-lashed eyes held high.
Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but he had forgotten, untill this moment that they had arranged to meet" - p.298

Alla:

You think Harry's subconscious may have remembered Lily's patronus? I mean, he did have flashbacks of the Sirius' bike after all?

I am not sure if child that young can keep his memories, I know that my first memories that I still have start since I was around three, but it is magic anyway, so why not. :)


And welcome back Ron you idiot. "The silver doe was nothing, nothinhg compared with Ron's reappearance, he could not believe it"


"As certainly as he had known that the doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the one to wield the sword. Dumbledore had at least taught Harry something about certain kinds of magic, of the incalculable power of certain acts." - p.304

Alla:

What acts that would be? I mean, is narrator talking about the acts of same magnitude as Lily's sacrifice? Or something on the smaller scale?