AbanesRespondsMore

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No: HPFGUIDX 17552

> > From: rabanesss at y... 
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> > Regarding Harry letting Peter go -- 
> > TRUE, this is an act of mercy. HOWEVER, how does Rowling 
> > handle this rare good deed??? She ends up having the good 
> > deed turn out to be the WORST thing Harry could have ever 
> > done!!! Because Peter was allowed to live, Cedric dies in book 4 
> > and Voldemort rises. So, here we have a truly good deed 
> > causing evil, but in other place many times we have bad deeds 
> > (lying, cheating, stealing, breaking wizard laaws) bringing about 
> > fun and goodness. If that isn't cockeyed for a fairy tale/ 
fantasy, I  don't know what is.
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I do not think that Harry sparing the life of Peter can be considered 
a bad thing, no matter what Peter goes on to do.

The idea was that Harry wanted them to *not kill Pettigrew, but to 
imprison him, instead* It was not Harry's fault that Pettigrew then 
got away and did his evil deeds. It was carelessness that Pettigrew 
got away. It was Pettigrew's choice to do evil. I suppose, given this 
knowledge, that Harry might not have made this decision to spare 
Pettigrew, but he was not. Neither were we given this information.

How did you feel at the time Harry spared Pettigrew and wanted him 
imprisoned, instead? Did you think, "No! Kill the rotten scum!" Did 
you think, "I am glad that Harry talked them out of killing?" 

I, for one, thought it was a very mature decision to choose to spare 
Pettigrew's life. (and I think if it came right down to it, Harry 
would not choose to harm Snape, even if he were given the chance) If 
Harry had not made this choice, there are a number of other Death 
Eaters who could have performed the evil deeds which Pettigrew later 
performed, so it is not as if Harry sparing him caused all the later 
problems. It was Pettigrew who made the wrong choices, but if not 
him, then someone else would. As long as there is the evil Voldemort 
and his evil followers, there will be evil in Harry's world.

Doreen