[HPforGrownups] Harry "Winning"/Harry Can't Plan Ahead

[RhianynTheCat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 60324

In a message dated 6/13/2003 11:12:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
lilpurplealdy at netscape.net writes:

> I wondered 
> last night...could Harry's guilt be partially derived from the fact 
> that Harry now knows that the only reason he was able to do so well 
> in the Triwizard Tournament(the first Two Tasks, anyways) was because 
> of an agent of Voldemort, helping him at every step..?  Perhpas not 
> guilt, but atleast disapointment at knowing that the things he had 
> accomplished now didn't seem so great.  

Rhianyn blinks sleepily:

I've always thought that the money just sort of sickens Harry.  Not only did 
he inadvertantly bring about Cedric's death, but he got PAID for it.  I once 
took a picture of a horse racing accident.  Thru some cruel twist of fate the 
first picture I took with my brand new digital camera, a test shot really, to 
see how it would stop action, caught a wreck on the final turn.  It caught the 
jockey, an acquaintance of mine in mid fall, just before he struck the ground. 
 He died on the spot.  Some fifteen minutes later I thought to look at the 
image on playback and showed it to someone else who told a newspaperman about 
it.  He offered me a substantial some of money for the disk and I promptly lost 
my lunch.  It was a literal, gut reaction.

I can only imagine how much worse it would be if, like Harry, it was pay 
offered for something that I'd strived hard for, had imagined would bring me 
glory, was indeed, something I'd sought.

:::Curls fluffy black tail about herself just _so_ and returns to napping by 
the fire::::
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