"And he shall have power the Dark Lord knows not...."

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 138999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Derek Hiemforth" <derek at r...>
wrote:
> Magda Grantwich:
> > > "And if I meet Severus Snape along the way," he added,
> > > "so much the better for me, so much the worse for him."
> >  
> > But it doesn't include the power to rise above cheesy
> > dialogue.  I cringed when I read this sentence and thought,
> > yeah right.
> 
> Derek:
> I dunno... it actually sounds exactly like sixteen-year-old
> bravado to me.  :-)

Pippin:
Bravo, Derek! The words sound cheesy because the boast is empty 
and Harry knows it. He has about as much chance of defeating
Snape in a fair fight as I do of playing Quidditch for England. As
Snape told him, he'd have to learn occlumency, and Jo has already
said that Harry can't learn it -- he's too damaged.

Harry could fight unfairly, and that would, according to Dumbledore,
fatally compromise his ability to defeat Voldemort. I realize some
people think Dumbledore was wrong and that's exactly what Harry 
needs to do -- they like the idea of morally compromised warriors 
duking it out in the shadows so that sheltered folks can go on
believing in innocence. But I  don't think that works in JKR's world, 
and I think when we meet the *real* traitor to the order,  we're
going to see what happened to the character who tried to go that 
route.

Pippin