The teenager joined the Canaries from Manchester United last week and made his debut from the bench in their 3-1 victory over table-topping Coventry. Amass previously spent the first half of the campaign on loan at Sheffield Wednesday.
We caught up with Sheffield Star reporter Alex Miller, who covers the Owls and followed Amass' progress with interest during his spell at Hillsborough. A snippet of that chat is below, and the full interview can be watched here.
Q: What can you tell us about Harry Amass as a player? Looking from the outside in, it looked like a really productive loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday. Was that the case?
A: He's a really, really good player and a good prospect. His departure was another dagger to Sheffield Wednesday and their sorry season, because without doubt, he was primed to be Wednesday's Player of the Year, in what has been, as everyone's seen, a miserable time for the club.
In terms of him as a player, I wasn't aware that he'd popped up on the right wing on his debut, but I can see some technical benefits to that. He's got a very good left foot, is an energetic player, very good in tight areas, and plays with a maturity beyond his years.
You can see that he's been very well schooled at obviously one of the biggest clubs in the world and struck up a very effective partnership with Barry Bannan on that left-hand side, and the two of them dovetailed really nicely and got the best out of each other for periods of games early on in the season.
He benefited hugely from his loan spell at Wednesday. I feel very old interviewing some of these players, and he sort of came across as a boy, but really grew into it. Durable with no sign of injury and in a side where he was duty-bound to play 90 minutes week in, week out, that's impressive. He's a proper player, I've made the point before, I think he'll play for England one day.
Harry Amass spent the first half of the campaign on loan at Sheffield Wednesday. (Image: Matt Wilkinson/Focus Images Ltd)
Q: It felt like Manchester United cherry-picked Sheffield Wednesday as a potential destination because of their unique circumstances and the likelihood of him being exposed to a lot of defending. Is that a fair assessment?
A: It was a combination of things. Without boring a Norwich City audience on this, the background of Wednesday signing Harry was that they weren't allowed to contribute a penny to any sort of incoming loan deals and all the deals had to be ratified by the EFL. So it was on Manchester United to pay everything from insurance costs to accommodation costs and everything in between.
It was an extraordinary deal. I think a lot of United fans looked at it and thought, 'you're throwing him into a desperately difficult situation, into a side that's probably not going to do too well'. But once Harry had spoken to Henrik Pedersen, Wednesday's manager, who has got the hardest job in English football by some distance, but he is very highly rated, they saw great value in Harry's ability going forward, and he's played a number of games for the United first team.
But what they really wanted was to improve was his adaptability to different styles of play and going the other way. The cold, hard fact of the matter is that Sheffield Wednesday was a team that was going to do a fair bit of defending this year. It was a loan spell that ended because it had gone so well.
Harry Amass made a surprise appearance as a right winger in his Norwich City debut against Coventry. (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd)
Q: He played as a left wing back at Wednesday but is expected to be a left back for Norwich, despite his surprise cameo at right wing. Do you see that being anything other than a natural step for him at this stage of his development?
A: I'm no expert in the way that Norwich play, but he's a player who does like to go forward. It'd be interesting to see him playing in different systems, but I think he'll sort of take it in his stride.
I assume that he's expected to be a regular starter once he gets his feet under the table. These loans are always sort of learning experiences, aren't they? We see it so often now that young players come down from the Premier League and spend one half somewhere and one half somewhere else, and then ultimately go back to the Premier League club to sort of stake a claim.
I don't think it's any coincidence, perhaps, that he's played, you know, on the left of a back five, now he'll have a go on a four. And, yeah, hopefully he just continues his up-and-up nature.
Harry Amass joined Norwich City from Manchester United on loan last weekend. (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd)
Q: Will Wednesday fans be watching his progress at Norwich City with interest?
A: There was a bit of rumbling in the weeks, moving into January, over the possibility of his loan move, which wasn't terminated. The terms of the loan were up until January, and then it was going to be revisited. The intention was initially for Wednesday to be somewhere towards new ownership by now, and hopefully, things could have been wrapped up, and maybe there could be some sort of fight against relegation. That hasn't come to pass.
I think from a Wednesday fan base perspective, which in many ways has been beaten into submission, there aren't any hard feelings towards Harry or the situation. It's a bit of an acceptance that Wednesday perhaps weren't able to offer what Harry needed. There's a great deal of goodwill towards him.
I think one or two Wednesday fans may have thought he might go a little bit higher up the table, and there's obviously a glut of teams and they're vying around those playoff spots.
Philippe Clement will be a manager who's quite highly thought of, and obviously, the job that he's done picking up Norwich from where they were is a big feather in his cap. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he and his coaching staff were a big reason why Manchester United decided to put Harry Amass out there.