[HPforGrownups] Re: And now for something really depressing

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2260

milz wrote:

> Oh I'm almost expecting someone close to Harry betraying him. It's a
> very old theme...very "Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe" ;-) But I think
> Ron would be the too obvious choice. In the two books, we've seen Ron
> as the focus of inter-trio discontent...first it was Ron vs.
> Hermione, then it was Ron vs. Harry and Ron vs. Hermione again. It'll be
> too
> obvious if Ron betrays Harry..not much of a surprize, IMO.

I think whoever betrays Harry will be themselves betrayed---in other words,
they will have genuinely believed, up until a moment of revelation, that
they were helping him. Kind of like Dobby protecting him to death, but with
an epiphany at the end. Preferably before serious damage is done.....

That seems very Voldemort's style, and also relieves JKR of having to turn
such so-far-noble-at-heart characters into petty little people.

--Amanda