Harry's sacrifice

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No: HPFGUIDX 58589

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "alice_loves_cats" 
<hypercolor99 at h...> wrote:
> Vix wrote:
> 
> > Which brought me to thinking - how much, or who, would Harry be 
> > prepared to sacrifice in his fight? > 
> Now Alice:
> 
> Judging by the way he didn't let Wormtail be killed, I don't think
> Harry would be into letting anybody else get killed. Wormtail is  
> bad to the bone, and Harry knows that. Yet he wants to give him a 
> fair > trial. Ron or Hermione are Good, and I think Harry would   
>much rather  NOT defeat Bad at that specific moment than sacrifice 
>their lives (or  Snape's, or Draco's, or the Dursley's, for that 
>matter). 
> 
> I'm quite sure, though, that he will have to face this type of 
dilemma sooner or later (and probably sooner) in the series. We 
shall see.
> 
> No danger of becoming Buffyish, in any case: Harry has already made
> countless sacrifices, and his friends also - this might actually be
> the key: he would sacrifice people only if they were prepared to be
> sacrificed. 
> 
> Which would leave the Dursley's alive, and Ron dead. Rather awful
> thought... 
> 
> Anybody else on the matter?
> 
> Love, Alice
Me

I am not sure you can say that Harry has made sacrifices yet. He 
has faced danger, stood up to evil, and so far has held his own.  He 
has done what needed to be done with no regard to how that would  
effect his own life. While there were injuries to Harry and his 
friends they were cause by fighting the good fight not due to having 
to make a decision. 
  
Now Ron had to make a sacrifice during the chess game, but Harry 
did   not ask him to make it. In fact he had to be talked into 
it.  In fact it would be out of character for Harry to make a 
decision that would cause injuries or death to anyone. He would just 
do what needed to be done on his own
  
  Bill