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Crappy writing <3
To be fair (while much of the writing is definitely shitty) they wanted to keep him in the school non-stop at this point because the people out to get him were becoming more prevalent and his enemies more powerful. So the intention to keep him safe.
But she probably could have directly said that. Most of the problems in the book could have been solved or entirely avoided if Harry would have listened to what he was told by Dumbledore and others
IIRC McGonagall does say something similar in the book. The movie just leaves it out. Harry asks if she could sign it, and she says something along the lines that she can't, because she's not his guardian, and she also wouldn't anyway because she doesn't think he should leave the grounds.
Honestly, it goes with the poor writing that she says it too. She really hammers in the point that he's supposed to be scared of Black, because she doesn't trust the reader to remember it for the twist I guess.
If Harry wasn't a self entitled prick there would be no books.
Lmao truly though. I read these books again when I was much older and was just consistently pissed off at him lol. I know he was a kid but holy hell lol. He got a lot of people unnecessarily killed even