Harry's experiences : what's missing ?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116620


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Alla:
> 
> Hmmm. Somebody recently brought Frodo into debate too. Carol, I 
have 
> a feeling you are right in a sense that Voldemort will be defeated 
> by unconventional weapon (Love and all that stuff), but Harry is SO 
> MUCH better character to me that Frodo even if due to the fact that 
> he TRIED to use the other side weapons and failed . In the moment 
of 
> the greatest pain, even than, he did not have enough hate in his 
> heart to cast Crucio.
> 
> Yeah, he tried, but what matters to me is that he failed. Frodo on 
> the other side is just so Blah as character with no temptation to 
> use other side weapon present (well, I guess he wanted to use a 
> Ring, but just not strongly enough). Boromir was so much better.

Geoff:
Tsk, tsk, you're forgetting your "Return of the King".

'Then Frodo stirred and spoke with a clear voice, indeed with a voice 
clearer and more powerful than Sam had ever heard him use and it rose 
above the throb and turmoil of Mount Doom, ringing in the roof and 
walls.
"I have come," he said. "But I do not choose now to do what I came to 
do. The Ring is mine!" And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he 
vanished from Sam's sight.'

(ROTK "Mount Doom")

It is often pointed out that Frodo, in reality, did not fulfil his 
quest. Had it not been for the intervention of Gollum, the Ring would 
not have been destroyed.

Although, Frodo, like Harry, is one of my favourite characters in 
fiction, he is a flawed character because the Ring has gnawed at his 
strength and resolve and the power it assumed as he reached the 
Sammath Naur just overwhelmed him. Frodo certainly, at the last, 
tried to use the enemy's weapon and would have been overcome but for 
the "pity" of Bilbo 78 years previously.

No, he's not Blah. in his own way, he's had as many hurdles as Harry 
to surmount.