I don't like the way that Harry responded to Macgeorge at the end of their conversation. I don't see what he has to apologize for to Draco, that Draco didn't do as well during the argument. I don't see how Draco is any less of a risk-taker or rule breaker (maybe he's better at not getting caught). With the whole banned from the hospital which is supposed to be proof of Harry's recklessness, I feel like it's pretty seriously fuked up to hold someone in a psych ward just because they want to leave earlier than the healers recommend. I feel like that's probably a crime. And I think escaping from that situation was necessary for Harry, though he should have been honest about his vision with Draco. I love your stories, but I really hate the way that you make some of your characters lecture Harry sometimes. You write him wonderfully, and I agree that there are things that he does that others would find alarming, and that they might see as Harry acting self-destructive. But the way that some of these characters respond to him like Macgeorge or that one healer who hated him . . . I can't empathize with them because they are weirdly vindictive about it. They just chew him out and act like he's being this horrible person on purpose when, no matter what, its plain to see he's at least trying to do something productive and helpful with his life. When that healer got so mad at Harry for always coming in to the hospital injured and taking up her time when she could be spending it on people who were more careful, I couldn't understand why she didn't get that if Harry wasn't so crazy sometimes, it would just be other people would die or get really hurt -- and I don't understand why she would think that would be better. And I can definitely see why Draco thinks the way he does about the twisted, and why he would be upset -- but Harry has just as good of a point. Draco and Harry's lives may be more important to THEM, but their lives aren't more important (in the grand sense) than trying to not kill people of they don't have to. Maybe this is the way its supposed to be, though -- I'm all riled up in Harry's defense! But I really wished he would have cast some sort of jelly-legs-jinx on Macgeorge when she started asking him questions, and just ignored her.
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