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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