Morality and Harry Potter

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 191836

> Bart:
> <snip> The question arrives as to whether or not Harry makes
the right choices. Psychologically, he has a "hero complex",
> where he feels that he must step in, and that he is the only
one who can. Outside of this, he frequently makes wrong choices
> (notably  in OOP, but also in POA). His fear of not being the
hero frequently keeps him from giving the adults around him the
information they would need to do the right thing, creating the
situation where only Harry can fix it (to Harry's credit, it is
> clear that he is steered into a lot of that by DD's scheming).
> <snip>


June:
You seem to forget, Bart, that when he does go to the teachers no
one believes him. For instance when he tells Prof McGonagall that
Malfoy is the one who sent the cursed necklace in OOP and in PS he
did go looking for Dumbledore when he was aware of what was happening
(even though he was incorrect of who was trying to steal the stone)
and Dumbledore had left the school. I don't think either that he had
a lot of trust in adults and in my opinion that is due to the Dursleys.