[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[fingalsanteater]

OOTP is my favorite book too, and I'll never understand people's criticism of Harry's personality during it. He was a kid going through a very dark time. He saw a dude get murdered, fought a death duel, was almost killed, was tortured, saw his dead parents spirits, had to go home to an abusive family, had no contact with his friends, had no emotional support for all that he'd suffered, etc, etc. Damn, cut the kid some fucking slack.

[(Anonymous)]

My problem with Harry's OotP personality--which is really my problem with the HP series in general--is that it's such a huge tonal shift from the preceding volumes. In the first three or four books, Harry's deprived and malnourished and forced to live in a closet, and his family gifts him things like plastic forks for Christmas. But it's okay, because he's in a modern-day fairy tale mixed with a plucky schoolboy's adventure, and by the conventions of those types of stories, horrific abuse is a minor obstacle and even a bit of a joke, rather than a psychologically scarring situation.

Or, in other words, I don't begrudge Harry his response to trauma; I resent Rowling for changing the rules mid-series.

[(Anonymous)]

Changing the rules and poorly executing the new attitude for a kids book. Plus, all caps screaming for paragraphs and pages on end is just exhausting to read.

[(Anonymous)]

I resent Rowling for changing the rules mid-series.

Thiiiiiiiiis. This is my major issue.