Genre WAS: That Bloody Man Again

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at t...>
wrote:
> 
> Nora:
> > Actually, there's a question for the list as a whole: can you
take the power of love and Harry's pure heart with a completely 
straight face?  

Silmariel:
> I can't. Actually reading the power of love so clearly stated as an
axiom  ended my suspension of disbelief, so I put it in the
'whatever'  list and  tried to ignore it anytime it surfaced (cheap 
trick, but it ended working). That kind of things do not bother me 
in books more clearly cutted into Good/Light/Order and 
Bad/Darkness/Chaos, more unrealistic scenarios, or when  it is 
stated from the beginning of the series.
> 

Pippin:
It did take me out of the story for a minute. My train of thought
went something like "Huh? What about the time he-- Oh, wait, this 
is the part where we're supposed to think Dumbledore's lost it. Well, 
I'm on to you, Jo m'girl. Dumbledore hasn't lost it, he's got a blind 
spot but this isn't it. He just means something different than what 
Harry/the reader thinks he means, and we'll find out what in Book 
Seven."

But if I had to hazard a guess now, it's not that Harry's never been
cruel or selfish, because he has. But he's never wanted to hurt
anyone who he thought cared about him, or anyone he thought 
was weaker than himself. He's been that way from the beginning. 
He's also never intentionally misused his powers, though once or 
twice he's attempted it.  Still, when  he failed with the cruciatus 
curse, he did not try to find somebody to teach it to him.

Pippin