[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is Harry Potter? (long)

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9502


--- Kimberly  <moongirlk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com,
> heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just feel that there has to be something more to
> it. As Lori wrote 
> > in Paradigm of Uncertainty (her wonderful fanfic,
> for those who are 
> > new to this list, which is avaialble at 
> >
>
http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=directory-
> > authorProfile&userid=3572) there were other
> witches & wizards who 
> > sacrificed themselves for their family - and
> sometimes, there 
> must've 
> > been witches & wizards who even sacrificed
> themselves for strangers 
> - 
> > but the people they were protecting died anyway. 
> 
> Can you give me an example of someone else who
> didn't survive despite 
> a witch or wizard dying to save them?  I can't think
> of any so far, 
> but I know I could be missing something.  I'd just
> hate to see a 
> sacrifice like that belittled as 'not enough', so
> I'm hoping my theory 
> is right, but if someone can find a good reason for
> me, I suppose I'm 
> willing to give it up.


Oh, I'm not trying to belittle the sacrifice - I think
that kind of sacrifice is an amazing, honorable and
horrible thing - and I'm not refering to any specific
thing that's been mentioned in the books - i.e. JKR
hasn't said "Person K died in hopes of his sacrifice
saving his cousin J, because he loved J so much but J
didn't survive the Avada Kedavra curse" - it's more
like, in the 10+ years that Voldemort was taking over,
and death eaters were killing people left & right, it
would be improbable that Lily POtter was the first
person to throw her/himself between a Death Eater (or
Voldemort) doing the AK curse, and the intended
victim. 



=====
heidi tandy

What Maureen Dowd thinks David Souter was thinking on Monday, December 11, 2000: I know the Bushes are furious at me. That'll teach 'em to assume that a guy living like a monk in an isolated New Hampshire farmhouse is some kind of Live Free or Die nut.

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