Why Fret About Voldemort Considering Riddle?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106163


Meri wrote :
> in Harry's mind the prophecy seems to imply some sort of 
> predetermination on his part. He's going to have to do *something* 
> and be the pro-actor instead of the reactor.

Del replies :
I see your point. I'm just not convinced, for two main reasons.

1. As I stated before, the Prophecy does not mention anything about
Harry having to go after LV. So considering that Harry has already
fought 3 times (4 if you count Tom Riddle in) with LV without ever
having hunted him down (or almost, see below), it doesn't seem logical
to me that Harry would automatically conclude that in order to face LV
one last time he will have to hunt him down. He knows LV *will* come
after him to kill him, that he Harry doesn't have to do anything to
provoke that meeting, that he just has to let things happen and LV
will come of his own accord. If he didn't know about the Prophecy, he
would still know about that fact : that LV won't rest till he's killed
Harry. He would know it because LV made it clear in his actions. So
why should he be so upset at what the Prophecy says ?

2. Harry actually hunted LV once already, and he didn't have qualms
about it. I mean, what *exactly* did he intend to do to make LV stop
torturing Sirius ?? I guess we just get back to another one of my pet
peeves : Harry never stopped to *think* anything through, he just went
to the DoM without ever figuring any kind of plan beforehand. If he
*had* thought things through, he would have realised that *nothing*
would make LV stop torturing Sirius (or spare Harry's life for that
matter) short of murder. So basically, he *already* hunted down LV
once with the unconscious plan of killing him.

Meri wrote :
> I don't think an adult would hold any such romantic (not really the 
> word I'm looking for, but you get the idea) notions that killing LV 
> would be murder. I think that a grownup, something that Harry just 
> isn't quite, would understand that there is a difference between 
> cold blooded murder and what he has to do, but once again, I think 
> in Harry's mind there is a distinction. 

Del replies :
I don't know about other readers, but I developed those romantic
notions as I grew up. It is *now*, as an adult, that I can't help
thinking that killing someone, whatever the circumstances, is murder,
and that I have to remind myself that there are circumstances that
justify killing someone. But when I was a kid, even a teenager, things
were much simpler than that : the baddies *deserved* to die because
they were evil. And I was generally considered a sweet girl with high
morals. In Harry's position, I would have had no hesitations : someone
who was out there to kill me just because I stood in the way of their
evil plans would have deserved to die. Clear and simple.

But I do understand that other people would think differently.

Del