Hard/Easy way, Harry's loss

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Elizabeth Dalton <Elizabeth.Dalton at E...> 
wrote:
> Oh, good thought. I remember when I read Dumbledore's speech for 
the first 
> time thinking, "Hm, that's an odd way of putting it. Sounds like 
he's 
> pointing out that if you take the 'hard way' you'll end up dead 
like 
> Cedric." I personally don't think that was one of the Headmaster's 
most 
> eloquent moments.


LOL, I certainly never thought of that.  It seemed pretty clear that 
the students were to remember what happened to Cedric as *motivation* 
when faced with the choice, not in a threatening way!


> The closest he comes to this may be in PoA, when he says, "I'll 
never know 
> what my parents wanted me to do, because thanks to Black, I haven't 
got 
> any."


That's not really the same thing, though.  That's just to highlight 
his anger, not to create a sob story situation.

Joshua Dyal