Harry V

[Kelsey Dangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 116966


hogsheadbarmaid said:
<<I just had a sad and morbid, but dramatically
interesting thought while watching Kenneth Branagh's
Henry V. What if Harry, as he attempts to lead in the
final battle against LV, has to turn on one of his
comrades in order to make it clear that he and his are
the side of good and capable of being true to that
which is good, no matter the personal cost. 
<snip>
Anyone want to tread this depressing road with me?>>

Kelsey replies:
I'll throw my blue featherboa around my neck and tread
along this road with you!

First of all, it's interesting (though I don't like
it) that Harry would have to do something morally
wrong to show to others that doing something morally
wrong is morally wrong (the old saying "Why do we kill
people who kill people to show that killing people is
wrong?").

But what if he had to stop a friend/loved one who's
possessed by Voldemort (sort of like the choice that
Dumbledore had to make at the end of OOP)? Or what if
he had to choose between two people he loves (i.e.
Hermione and Ron)? Or what if he has to choose between
bringing Sirius Black back to life and the life of
someone (could be anyone, even someone who he doesn't
know well)?

I like your idea about the twins, how he has to let
them be killed in order to show that the good side
really is good because they won't sink to the moral
level of the other side. This is cold/cruel and
tottering on the edge of being bad in order to be
good, but it would work against Harry's "saving-people
thing" that makes him want to act rather than sit
back.

Kelsey, who loves Shakespeare and finds the use of
MacBeth in the film appropriate, and thinks that Harry
is already having Hamlet moments!!!


		
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