Good moral core (Re: Dirty Harry/Clean Harry)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117218


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

Del:
> I personally have no problem imagining DD or McGonagall going down 
the
> slide.
> 
> Maybe those two would not have listened if Harry had just told them 
he
> knew where the opening of the Chamber of Secrets was (though DD is a
> Legilimens, so he would have known Harry was telling the truth). But
> once Harry did open the slide, I have no doubt that all the teachers
> would have followed him if only he had gone to fetch them.

Geoff:
Yes, but there is very much a time imperative here, possibly another 
example of Harry's "hero-luck".

When Harry gets to the Chamber and meets Tom Riddle, note one of the 
first things Riddle says:

'"She's still alive," said Riddle. "But only just."'

(COS "The Heir of Slytherin" p.227 UK edition)

and again:

'"..But there isn't much life left in her: she put too much into the 
diary, into me. Enough to let me leave its pages at last..."'

(ibid. p.231)

So, if Harry had opened the Chamber and then gone off to find 
Dumbledore at al. they might have arrived in the Chamber to find 
Ginny dead and Voldemort Mk.II waiting for them.....

Geoff
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