Harry's temptation

[Dan Feeney]

No: HPFGUIDX 116328


SSSusan:
> He could also be tempted to run away and to choose not face up to 
the burden he bears by virtue of being the only one who can defeat 
Voldy. THAT'S a temptation I could see him wrestling with...at least 
for a short time.

Christopher Nehren 
> He started to do exactly that, in a way, in OotP -- around 
Christmastime. It's detailed toward the beginning of chapter 23. 
Fortunately, he was stopped by Phineas who gave Harry an order from 
Dumbledore -- "stay where you are". 

Dan:

Is it really the ONLY reason Harry would run away? To avoid "the 
burden?" I always thought, if he did run away, it would be with 
perhaps the intention to drawn Voldemort to him, and away from those 
he cherishes. Perhaps, once he is able to incorporate the knowledge 
he has about the prophecy into some kind of framework for surviving, 
it will come down to, finally, the point where he feels that he CAN 
take on Voldemort, can handle himself without the potential 
intervention of Dumbledore or the Order. I mean, if he's going to 
win, doesn't he have to, at some point, start planning how to do 
that? That will make the final books different from the lazy Harry we 
knew in GoF. And really, don't we all eventually "run away" from 
home, in one way or another?

Dan