Harry's Cold Anger (was RE: How should Harry deal with Snape)

[dzeytoun]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> 
> If you're right that if Harry masters himself by controlling his 
> outbursts but becomes only colder, harder, more rage-filled inside, 
> more like SNAPE...then I wonder... would that help him in the end if 
> he needed to use the AK against Voldy?  Or would that just make 
> him "not Harry"?  I wouldn't want that.
> 
> Well, it's all interesting, and we've probably gone 'round & 'round 
> as far as we can go.  My hunch is still that Harry will find a way, 
> eventually, of coming to terms w/ Snape because he'll be so focused 
> on the mission at hand.  And I think he'll manage to do it *without* 
> turning into another Snape.  BUT we shall see!


You know, I am beginning to wonder if there is not a main message of 
the series hidden here somewhere.  We have speculated about whether 
Harry will have to wrestle with the Dark.  Well, the Dark has many 
faces, Voldemort's is only one, while Snape's is another.  Whether or 
not Snape is an evil person (and I think he is in a very fundamental 
way), he is undeniably TWISTED by evil.

I have a hard time imagining Harry ever becoming a psychotic, 
sociopathic murderer like Voldemort.  I have a much easier time 
seeing him becoming something akin to Snape.  Perhaps not as nasty, 
but still cold, withdrawn, and filled with icy anger.  After all, 
they are already much more alike than either one likes to admit.

It may be that, when all is said and done, the real battle will end 
up being something other than what we think it is.  We have made a 
great deal out of the power of love and how Harry has to keep from 
becoming like Voldemort.  Perhaps, just perhaps, that is a blind.  
Maybe the real danger, and the real battle Harry must fight, is not 
becoming Voldemort, but becoming Snape.

Dzeytoun