Harry the martyr/Harry the killer

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> >I love Harry so.  It would break my heart if he had to die.
> 
> Truer words never spoken!  Only at this site would I proudly admit 
how 
> in love with Harry Potter I am (and I mean Harry Potter himself).  
The 
> thought of Harry dying is painful (and JKR herself has alluded to 
> that) and might change my feelings about the books (as I did when I 
> read the last installment of the Narnia series - I think I've even 
> mentioned that before).  So I won't dwell on the death of Harry.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Somehow, I can't see Ron or Hermione dying - neither is powerful 
> enough to really take on Voldie - though Hermione comes close.  And 
we 
> know Pettigrew still owes Harry big time, and we also kinda know 
he'll 
> pay up.  
> 
> I'll stick with Snape, thank you very much.
> 
> --Jenny from Ravenclaw
> --61% obsessed (still not enough for me)
> --100% R/He shipper

For Harry to be able to have the choice of 'killing', he will first 
have to *know* how to use the curses.  I can't quite see him going 
off to the library and looks it up in the restricted section.
Someone would have to take the initiative to teach him.  I nominate 
our dear Potions Master for the job, who after all has already taught 
Harry one useful spell (and fast becoming the spell for all 
occasion)  Mainly because I can't see any other teacher doing it, not 
even the real Moody.

I can really see Snape dies to protect Harry but not defeating 
Voldemort.  The book is called Harry Potter after all and like it or 
not, the series on the whole does follow a popular formula -- 
although I would dearly love to see Snape defeating V.

How about this: Snape dies in the middle of BK. 7 to help Harry to 
escape back to Hogwarts; (thus giving Harry (and JKR) plenty of time 
to milk all possible angst out of it) Harry blame himself because if 
only he had used the killing curse on V, Snape would have been saved; 
big V attacks Hogwarts; tries to use the killing curse on either Ron 
or Hermione and this time Harry seizes the chance ...