Harry's protection

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 113031

> > Siriusly Snapey Susan...who loves Pippin's phrase "sacrificial 
> > love is only the most spectacular example of [unselfish love]".

Kneasy: 
> Depends who or what is being sacrificed.
> Depends on  how you define 'spectacular'.
> 
> Percy has 'sacrificed' his family for love of his job;
> DD could well have 'sacrificed' James and Lily to produce 
> Weapon!Harry;
> Mrs Crouch sacrificed herself to set free an eventual patricide.
> 
> Nothing, not even love, is without a downside.

SSSusan: 
The first two, imho, have nothing to do with love.  The Mrs. Crouch 
example is interesting, because it likely was done out of love, but 
she didn't anticipate the patricide, it wasn't the PURPOSE of the 
sacrifice.  

The way I'm envisioning the Harry Sacrifice denouement, it wouldn't 
work that way.  

So humor me.  Let's set the final scenario this way.  (And forgive 
the lack of creativity & grace in what's to follow--no time or 
ability to even attempt to make it pretty.)  Harry, after two 
torturous years of wondering what he must do, why he must do it, how 
can he get out of it, blah blah blah, finds himself and all his 
fellows IN the final showdown.  He has suspected the possibility that 
he might have to die in order to end it all, but damn it, he really 
doesn't want to.  In this moment, however, he glances around him, 
sees all these fellows fighting alongside him, considers all these 
people whom he loves deeply.  And then, NOT out of sense of duty or 
obligation, but out of deep, sheer love for who they are, for their 
goodness and humanity, he chooses to step up and sacrifice himself.  
He splats, Voldy get annihilated, end of VW2 and Voldy.  

What, exactly, is the downside of that kind of love?

Siriusly Snapey Susan