My shocking idea

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 72945

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> <snip>> This brings me to my most controversial guess: that the 
deepening of 
> character is going to extend all the way to Voldemort himself.  
When 
> Dumbledore called him "Tom", I don't think he was doing it in a 
> sneering way; I think he was addressing himself to the human being 
> he once knew.  If all these other characters went bad because they 
> were mistreated, in the end we will learn that Tom Riddle was the 
> same.  That he was not always pure evil, that he had a chance for 
> good, but that he chose evil partly because of the way he was 
> treated.  I have my own ideas about what pushed him to the dark 
> side, which I won't go into.  But I think Harry is going to learn 
> that compassion, which he was already starting to feel for Snape, 
> (and that is one of Harry's most admirable moments, when he 
realizes 
> that he feels bad for his most hated teacher) must extend all the 
> way to the Dark Lord himself.  I think Harry's sacrifice will be 
> even bigger than Lily's was; he won't be dying just to save his 
> friends, but to save his worst enemy.  I think Harry's death is 
> going to be *truly* Christ-like, and he'll be able to look at 
> Voldemort and see not the all-powerful dark wizard, but the ruined, 
> destroyed human being he once was, and respond with love and 
> compassion.  Any ideas about this, or am I just raving?
> 
> Wanda



   I should really dig up that essay someone wrote in relation to 
Evil!Dumbledore, but the author of the essay made a point by 
comparing Lily to Mrs. Crouch. She wrote that Mrs. Crouch's love was 
possibly greater than that of Lily's. 
Oh! I just found it, I'll just cut and paste the section....





http://zero.morsmordre.net/dumbledore.htm
<<<<<<<Love, "a force that is at once more wonderful and more 
terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of 
nature" (OotP), is what somehow elevates Harry above Voldemort-- 
being the power that he can never have. 

Love. 

What about Bellatrix Lestrange's obvious love for Voldemort? And 
Barty Crouch, Jr.'s? Their love was unconditional and total enough 
for them to be willing to die for their Master. Surely JK Rowling is 
not suggesting that nobody ever loved them, either? That idea is 
immediately contradicted by Mrs. Crouch giving up her own freedom and 
life in exchange for her son's. Is that not a sacrifice-- and indeed, 
a more painful and torturous sacrifice than the split-second before 
death that Lily Potter had to go through? To delve a little deeper, 
the argument could even be made that Mrs. Crouch's love was even 
greater-- it is easy to love a baby in its innocence, and indeed, it 
is monstrous not to-- but Mrs. Crouch loved and stood by a son who 
did cruel, terrible things (or was at least accused of them). While 
she may not have believed all the stories and the conviction of Barty 
Crouch, Jr., her decision was certainly a more difficult one than 
Lily's, especially as it was thought out with no immediate threat. It 
wasn't an impulse or moment of bravery, but a calculated act of self 
destruction. >>>>>>>>


I think what Harry needs to do is at least be willing to complete 
that Calculated act of self destruction to destory VOldemort.



-SophineClaire