Harry and the Decision

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 127595


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wrote:

Bonnie: 
> I don't think however that he is ready for the Heros "Hall of Fame" 
> quite yet.  He hasn't saved the world.  He still needs to make the 
> big decision #1 and to commit to it #4.  
> 
> I am sure he will do this,  he's probably mulling things over in 
his 
> mind right now while we wait for Book 6.  But will he be forced 
into 
> it, or will he volunteer?  How long will he take to decide and what 
> will he do then?  He is after all much younger than our normal 
heros 
> and still in school.  I can't wait to find out.

Geoff:
Interesting, your comparisons with Frodo. If you have been on the 
group any length of time, you'll know that I've been a fan of LOTR 
for almost 50 years (ouch!).

I think in terms of your #1, the decision isn't altogether his; I 
suspect the agenda will be forced by Voldemort. In fact, Harry has 
realised that the decision has already been forced ....

"Perhaps the reason he wanted to be alone was because he had felt 
isolated from everybody since his talk with Dumbledore. An invisible 
barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was - he had 
always been - a marked man. It was just that he had never really 
understood what that meant... And yet sitting here on the edge of the 
lake, with the terrible weight of grief dragging at him, with the 
loss of Sirius so raw and fresh inside, he could not muster any great 
sense of fear. It was sunny and the grounds around him were full of 
laughing people and even though he felt as distant from them as 
though he belonged to a different race, it was still very hard to 
believe as he sat here that his life //must// include, or end in, 
murder"

(// - my emphasis)

(OOTP "The Second War Begins" p. 754 UK edition)

So I feel I would feel that he has made the decision and is committed 
to it.