Choosing.....Who's taking the easy way out?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 90813

Meri said: 
> Like you said, LV will attack that point of a person that is 
> weakest, in Harry's case, his "saving people thing." Harry, for 
> whatever reason (and I am not even going to touch the messiah-
> complex theories), has developed into the kind of person that would 
> risk his own life to save the life of a loved one. LV knows this, 
> and therefore must know that Harry's weak points are those that he 
> cares about: Hermione, Ron, the other Weasleys, Hagrid and to some 
> extent Neville, possibly even the Dursleys. 

Marianne:

I wonder though - Harry has been burned by this and burned deeply by 
Sirius' death.  And, although he's willing to heap a ton of blame on 
Snape, I do believe that Harry was too emotional and too close to the 
event at the end of OoP to be ready to see how his own actions played 
into the events at the MoM.  However, I predict that Harry will, at 
some point in Book 6, start coming to terms with this.  And I think 
that will make him more likely to assess the risks and rewards of 
dashing off on one of his "saving people" missions.

Meri again:
I think you make another 
> good point: these people would probably not actively betray Harry. 
> Even Ron, who I suspected would be the traitor in the group, has 
> surpassed any expectations of loyalty that even Harry had of him. 
> What makes this issue fuzzy, however, is, as you say, the matter of 
> choice and the fact that in the WW we know you don't always have 
> one. That's right: the old Imperius curse. This brings up the fact 
> that we must also worry about the vulnerability of those closest to 
> THEM: Mr. Weasly's co-workers, Dr. and Dr. Granger, Olympe Maxime, 
> Gran, Uncle Algie and Grawp. Imagine poor old Perkins being paid to 
> put the Imperio on Arthur who then puts the Imperio on Ron who then 
> leads Harry straight into LV's clutches! JKR's introduction of the 
> Imperio has added some interesting ambiguity to the WW, and it will 
> be interesting to see what else she does with it. 

Marianne, again:
I do hope that, if there is a betrayal, it is due to the active 
decision of the betrayer.  I don't want one of the good guys to hand 
over important information to the DEs because of the Imperious 
Curse.  I want to see an active betrayal.  

But, I also think that the betrayer might be someone who is 
maneuvered into an untenable position and then chooses the lesser of 
two evils.  Let's say Molly gets word that something horrible will 
happen to Percy, and further, that she can prevent it if she simply 
gives person X (a disguised DE) a little bit of information 
concerning the whereabouts of one of the Order members, or which 
person in a certain MoM Dept. works in the Order, or something that, 
on the surface, doesn't look particularly dangerous.  Well, does she 
spill those few beans and save her errant son from harm?  Or does she 
potentially sacrifice him for what may be no good reason?

I'm not saying I think Molly will be a betrayer - I'm just using her 
family to prove a point.  Just as Vmort can target Harry's weakness 
with regards to the people he considers family, so can others be 
targeted.

Marianne


> Meri