This isn't really the place to go into this in depth, so I'll just leave it that I think, based on personal experience including our OP, that it would be entirely possible for a person of Harry's age and situation to be a decent person and not understand how bad that word is until someone tells him. I think we'll just have to disagree on that. (It wasn't really meant as a serious prompt anyway! I pulled all of the serious bits of it into the genderqueer!Archive prompt downthread.)
(frozen) Re: OP Here
Date: 2011-02-17 04:49 am (UTC)