Harry will strip Voldemort?
Chris Parnell
chspnll at pacific.net.in
Sun Mar 10 10:32:53 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 36305
Chelsea was responding to Zeyoung:
If it came down to Harry having to either kill V or strip him of his
powers,
i think Harry would strip his powers. .....
I think JKR has warned us repeatedly that someone is going to die, and
it is a death that is going to be close to Harry, and he will have to
confront grisly and emotionally churning death and grapple with the
reality of a life ended, a life that he is emotionally connected to. I
think, given the moral context of the tales JKR is telling, Harry, if
he e'er confronts Riddle AKA Voldemort with life and death, will not
take the easy solution, but the right solution because he has learned
that is always the best thing to do, particularly in terms of
consequences.
I don't want to predict what Harry will do in a situation like this,
because JKR is constructing an intensely moral universe despite the
dislikes and the actions of Riddle AKA Voldemort, of Pettigrew, of
Snape or Sirius.
For example, Dumbledore is utterly reliable *because* he is utterly
morally predictable and may be relied upon to chose the cause of right,
even if he is the holder of more information than any other actors in
the drama about him.
Chris Parnell
not might and magic,
its right and magic.
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