Behind the Locked Door...Self Sacrifice

[tinglinger]

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mallrat42g
Harry knows it is always locked, and knows that in 
actuallity, because Dumbledore told him,(pp. 843-844): 
 
"It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more 
terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of 
nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects 
for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room 
that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at 
all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also 
saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to 
reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it 
mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart 
that saved you." 
 
<snip> What is behind that door? Truth? Wisdom? Love? Does anyone 
have a logical answer?


tinglinger

Self Sacrifice

Harry is always willing to put others before himself, a trait he
inherited from his mother. It also is one of the reasons he is not
cut out for Slytherin, as Phineas Nigellus tells Harry that all
Slytherins are self serving and put their own interest above
others {canon somewhere in OOP}. Does anyone here seriously think
for a second that Voldemort would sacrifice himself to save a 
Death Eater?

The self sacrifice attribute is nowhere near as common as the
self serving one, and will not be found in Slytherin, but is as
much a part of Harry as his mom is. 

It would not suprise me at all that learned wizards study this
matter at the MoM, Noone has ever returned to say whether the 
sacrifice was worth it or not or even why it was done. 


tinglinger
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development in books 6 and 7 based on canon and books 
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