Does Harry Hate LV?
pippin_999
foxmoth at qnet.com
Fri May 28 13:57:02 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 99646
--- 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?
> Anyway, submitted for your approval or stoning...
<snip>
> Meri - who wonders if JKR has in fact created an overly moral
hero
I think Voldemort is too random, vast and impersonal to be
hated. It would be like hating a tornado or wanting revenge on an
earthquake. What Harry really hates is unfairness, and
Voldemort is not unfair, he's merely random. He treats his
followers just as badly as his enemies.
Harry fears dishonor and humiliation far more than death, but
there's no dishonor or shame in being defeated by Voldemort
--or at least that's what Harry thought before he lost Sirius.
Remember this from Book One? "Hagrid, he'd have found out
somehow, this is Voldemort we're talking about, he'd have found
out even if you hadn't told him." Harry needs to cut himself a
little slack, IMO.
Thinking about this made me understand why, after five years of
fighting Voldemort, Harry suddenly thinks that to kill his enemy
will be murder. It will be, if he wants to kill Voldemort for the
same reason that Voldemort wants to kill him.
Pippin
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