[HPforGrownups] Re: Will Harry have to kill...or be killed?

Robert A. Rosenberg rarpsl at optonline.net
Wed Jul 16 04:57:45 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 70721

At 19:11 +0000 on 07/15/2003, annemehr wrote about [HPforGrownups] 
Re: Will Harry have to kill...or be killed?:

>I'm with you two, but there is more to the problem for Harry.  I can
>certainly see someone like Harry preferring to be killed than to do
>the killing, but if Harry is to believe the prophecy, he is the only
>one with the power to vanquish Voldemort.  This makes the option of
>being murdered just as unbearable as to murder, since Harry would
>feel responsible for Voldemort's future victims if Harry chose this
>path.
>
>I am also holding out for a twist to the prophecy to release Harry
>from this dilemma, though I can't think what that would be, and
>anymore, I think whatever Harry is going to face will be terrible...

The Prophecy can be read to say that Harry must/will kill Voldemort 
in a Kamikaze "Final Stroke" Attack. IOW: He can get killed yet still 
kill Voldemort  (and since his means of killing Voldemort "punishes" 
Harry by also killing him, he can avoid the aftermath of living with 
his feeling about having killed Voldemort as well as getting his 
choice of getting killed).

--

Bob Rosenberg




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