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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117223


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Geoff wrote :
> "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....."
> 
> Del replies :
> I don't think so. First because Harry himself took quite some 
time on the way to the Chamber (the Lockhart incident slowed 
him down quite a bit), and also because Ginny lasted long 
enough for Harry and Tom to have their lengthy show-down.
> 
> I don't think it would have taken that long to go and get DD and 
theteachers, who would then have rushed to the Chamber. DD 
would have instantly recognised Tom, and he might have been 
able to dispose of him right away.
> 

Pippin:
Um, Dumbledore wasn't even at Hogwarts when Harry and Ron 
went to the chamber. As for the rest of the teachers,  Harry and 
Ron thought that they had cravenly sent Lockhart to go confront 
the monster alone: "We'll make sure everyone's out of your way. 
You'll be able to tackle the monster all by yourself. A free rein at 
last." It sounded to them as if  McGonagall "that's got *him* out 
from under our feet" would have been perfectly happy to see 
Lockhart devoured.

Pippin