There is another reviewer who like you is very frustrated with me because of Harry’s ’door-mat’ tendencies as she/ he calls it. I guess that trait of Harry’s is my interpretation of what growing up with the Dursleys has done to him. Even if they were not physically abusive in cannon, the neglect and lack of love from your family will make it hard, I believe, to assert yourself. You know right from wrong in theory, but you’re so used to stand back that you no longer notice doing so. This issue was addressed to some extent in chapter 26 (To trust a Slytherin). Harry is not cowed or anything, he simply has learnt to choose his moments of protest very carefully. Moreover, fighting a dark lord all of your life and really going through with it, must leave its traces. Like Hermione said to Snape at St Mungo’s: Nothing’s very important to him in comparison to what he has lived.

Thanks for the reveiws and, here you are: the inquiry!