Does Harry Hate LV?

Caius Marcius coriolan_cmc at hotmail.com
Fri May 28 12:09:42 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 99644

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> 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. 

There is this passage from Chap. 31 of GoF, after Harry has viewed 
the Pensieve trials and learned the fate of Neville's parents:

As Harry pulled on his pajamas, he looked over at Neville's bed.  
True to his word to Dumbledore, he had not told Ron and Hermione 
about Neville s parents.  As Harry took off his glasses and climbed 
into his four-poster, he imagined how it must feel to have parents 
still living but unable to recognize you. He often got sympathy from 
strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville's 
snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did.  Lying 
in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate toward the 
people who had tortured Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom. ... He remembered 
the jeers of the crowd as Crouch's son and his companions had been 
dragged from the court by the dementors. ... He understood how they 
had felt. . . . Then he remembered the milk-white face of the 
screaming boy and realized with a jolt that he had died a year 
later. . . .It was Voldemort, Harry thought, staring up at the canopy 
of his bed in the darkness, it all came back to Voldemort. ... He was 
the one who had torn these families apart, who had ruined all these 
lives. . . .

It doesn't directly say that "Harry hates Voldemort" - but Harry 
feels hate toward those who tortured the Longbottoms, and then 
realizes that the ultimate culpability lies with Voldemort.

  - CMC





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