[Tax-chick]

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.

I pretty much agree with your other points. I considered the use of “unforgiveable” curses by “good” characters to be more on the order of a continuity glitch, since I never expected the characters to be perfectly black or white, as it were.

[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.