Harry's sacrifice

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 58606

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:

>  Annemehr:
> > *This fact that Harry allowed Ron and Hermione risk their lives 
for 
> > him is telling.  I think Harry perceives it as a noble act, and he 
> > sees his friends as just as capable of it as he is himself.  I see 
> it not as any kind of cowardice in Harry, but a virtue.
> 
> One quibble: Harry doesn't "allow" anyone to do anything.

Annemehr:
Okay, bad choice of a word, maybe, but he certainly didn't object, and 
I think that's for the reason you quoted me on above.

Back to Darrin:
 Ron and 
> Hermione can think for themselves. Had Harry tried to go after the 
> Stone by himself, who is to say Hermione doesn't put the body bind 
on 
> him until he agrees to let them go? And I'd like to have seen 
someone 
> try to stop Ron from trying to help Ginny.

Annemehr:
My quibble here. These examples are slightly different, as they *all* 
were going together to save something or someone else.  In the S. 
Shack, Ron and Hermione risked themselves to defend *Harry* (as they 
thought at the time).
 
> 
> But, annemehr is certainly right, Harry isn't a coward for accepting 
> their help. Geez, did I miss someone trying to say he was?

Annemehr:
No one said that, it was just another thought beside the main point 
that I thought was significant.  That's why I stuck it in a footnote. 
 And, to Huggs Becky, I also do not think that *Harry* would sacrifice 
someone, but IMO we have seen that he would accept, say, Ron 
sacrificing *himself* for the right cause, if he saw that it was 
neccesary.
> 
> Darrin
> -- Darrin and the Quibbles. What do you think?

Yeah, sure.  Or Annemehr and the Footnotes.  Hmm, lacks a certain 
zing...

Annemehr
in general agreement with Darrin, again...(General Agreement -- could 
be the name of *something*).