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Embarrassment: The Four Champions (Book 4, Chapter 17)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

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Anger and Embarrassement

"I think that when Ron realizes what's going on, he's going to be embarrassed later because he had the wrong idea," Rowling says. "Anger absolutely arises with it if embarrassment indicates some disconnect between how you think you ought to be perceived and how you understand others as perceiving you", she adds. 'That feeling of I shouldn't be alone, someone stand up with me' is one of the conditions in which embarrassment becomes anger for Potter.

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