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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