[Antoninus]

Since my family is in the throes of teenhood, I thought the new personality of Harry was, sadly, quite believable. None of my offspring has gone *quite* so batty, but they’re not under quite as much stress.

Perhaps you're right. None of mine are teens, yet, so I don't have the same frame of reference. His attitude just seemed radically out of character. And having read the subsequent books, he kind of goes back to the way he was in VI and VII.

[Tax-chick]

They have phases. Anoreth was a nightmare from 13 to 15, but she’s reverted to human at 16, except for the bizarre hair color thing.

At 13, Bill’s impossible about half the time, and I understand that’s likely to increase most of the time when he’s 14. (We’ll try marathon training ...) I don’t know what happens after that; my brother seems to have never gotten much past 14.