Does Harry Hate LV?

meriaugust meriaugust at yahoo.com
Fri May 28 03:52:52 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 99621

Here's a ridiculous question, and my cursory searches through the 
archives of YahooMort have turned up nothing, so I post this for 
discussion. Is there any place in cannon where it says that Harry 
hates LV? Or wants to revenge himself on LV? Or even fears LV? I 
just reread all the books and it struck me as odd that there were no 
refernces, that I noticed anyway, to Harry hating or wanting 
vengence on LV. We have heard him say (well, heard him think, 
rather) that he hates Malfoy, hates Snape, that he's been angry with 
DD and others, but I don't recall ever reading that he hates 
Voldemort. In the Shreiking Shack scene, when he still believes 
Sirius Black to be the traitor that killed his parents, Harry wants 
his wand back not to defend himself, but to attack and kill Black. 
At the end of the DoM battle he says he wants to kill Bellatrix 
LeStrange for what she did to Sirius. But why are there no such 
feelings when he is confronted with LV moments later? Why is it that 
Harry considers the meaning of the prophecy to be that he must 
committ murder (kill LV), when not only would he surely not be 
punnished for such an action, not only would said action be 
completely justified, and not only would there be a line of a 
thousand wizards probably willing to do the same (and who would 
probably have no qualms about it) but if Harry were to complete the 
prophecy, he would be regarded as a hero, even more so than before. 
I only ask because my Star Wars came screaming back to me tonight, 
and wasn't vengance one of the first things that Luke Skyalker 
wanted when he found out about Darth Vader "killing" his father? 
Anyway, submitted for your approval or stoning... 

Meri - who wonders if JKR has in fact created an overly moral hero





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