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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2374782" data-attributes="member: 31094">I don't think he's a jerk, either, in book #5, but I do think he's less patient with others and tends to get snappy when stressed.  Much like, oh, every teenager I've ever met <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I, for one, am very happy that JKR chose to have a flawed hero, rather than a golden boy who always does the right thing and never whines about it.   I would never expect a child to try to live up to a book character that accepts everything as it comes and never gets upset.  Getting angry, nervous, scared, or even snotty are natural human reactions to stimuli, and I would never want a child to feel they couldn't react naturally to things because the books they've read tell them they can't express feelings and emotions. I know I would never be able to be as positive of a person as Harry is, if I went through the things he's went through.  I'd be a downright nasty person if my parents were killed, someone very powerful was out to get me, and every time I turned around I had a.) a snotty (but oddly cute) little jerk classmate mouthing off to me, and b.) newspaper reporters stalking me, and c.)  friends that get exasperated whenever I tried to vent and tell me to grow up.  If I were a teenager handling that, it wouldn't be pretty. As for Viktor Krum, he's a weenie, and I hope he never comes back.  He was just ... bleh.</blockquote>

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