Savior complex? (was "Harry and Tom")

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 110827

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Matt" 
> <hpfanmatt at g...> wrote:
> > Do you really think it is all that odd for a person to go out of 
> > his way to help others? 

> It's excusable, because in PS/SS  Harry's an eleven year old kid 
> who thinks he's fallen into a fairy tale, and that the world really
> is an arena for him to demonstrate his heroism, but at almost 
> sixteen, he really needs to stop thinking like that.

I will argue that PS/SS is not the savior complex, but self-
preservation. Harry is determined to stop Voldemort from getting the 
stne and coming back to kill him.

Josh