[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry the martyr/Harry the killer

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14019

meboriqua at aol.com wrote:
 
> I think something that Harry has had to deal with in his life so far
> is GUILT.  He is alive when his parents aren't, he has money when his
> best friend doesn't, and he had to witness the murder of an innocent
> and very good person while he, once again, lived.  JKR could very well
> use that angle, by having someone important to Harry die to save him,
> yet again, from Voldie.  Dumbledore (the only wizard other than Harry
> Voldie is afraid of) is my favorite (and also heartbreaking)
> candidate.  Yet there is another that is quite wonderfully
> complicated...
> 
> Severus Snape.  We know he is NOT bad, yet we all love to hate him for
> and with Harry.  Wouldn't it just blow us away if Snapey was the one
> to help vanquish Voldemort after all - and lose his own life in the
> process?  Just like we all dislike certain people but wouldn't wish
> death on them, Harry would have a lot to deal with if Snape died while
> helping Harry.

Oh, I =like= this!  I like this a =lot.=  The more so because
Snape would thus be canceling out his own burdensome (as he sees
it) debt to Harry's father . . . and he's also a character who
wouldn't necessarily =mind= the fact that he was laying a
certain, similar amount of guilt on Harry.  (Well, he
wouldn't...)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>