[HPforGrownups] A detailed analysis of Snape's hatred of Harry (S.N.O.T.)

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49081

In a message dated 1/1/03 8:23:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
suzchiles at pobox.com writes:

> I want to be sure about this. Does this mean that you would have preferred
> that Harry not have tried to find the Philosopher's Stone before the bad 
> guy
> (thought Snape, was Quirrell) and thus ensure that the stone went to
> Voldemort? Would you have preferred that Harry let Ginny perish in the
> Chamber of Secrets than to enter the Chamber, kill the Basilisk, destroy 
> the
> diary and the young Tom Riddle, and let Ginny die?

Quirrell never could have gotten the Stone. "You see, only one who wanted to 
*find* the Stone - find it, but not use it - would be able to get it..." (US 
"adult" paperback, pg. 373).  There was no way he could've gotten it, and 
Dumbledore would've gotten there and stopped him (I fully believe in the 
power of Dumbledore!).
But that's not what I meant.  I didn't mean that I thought that Harry should 
let Ginny die, let Riddle get out, let the Basilisk get loose, or let Quirrel 
get the Stone (even though he couldn't).  I meant that Harry had a choice.  
He didn't have to go down there (either time), he chose to.  I think he made 
the right choice, but my point was that there *was* a choice - no one was 
standing there with a wand to his head *coughLockhartcough*.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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