my greatest fear....

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121270


Carol wrote earlier:
"specifically, I'm afraid that she'll have Harry murder Voldemort with
an Unforgiveable Curse. (I don't care that Voldemort deserves it; I
don't want Harry to be stained with the evil of his enemy's weapons.)"

Lupinlore responded:
"Why does it matter HOW he dies?  Dead is dead is dead, killing is
killing is killing.  Someone killed by LOVE is still as dead as
someone killed by AK.
(snip)
Is Harry going to fill himself with love and then kill Voldemort with
nothing but love in  his heart?
(snip)
I personally would not find it very satisfying as at that moment Harry
would transcend his humanity and become something quite unworldly -
something that I, personally, could not relate to."
 
Carol answered:
"We also see what happened to Barty Jr. and to tom Riddle when they
used the Unforgiveable Curses. I don't want Harry to destroy Voldemort
in that way because it would undermine the system of morality that JKR
is setting up, which I fear is *almost* as black and white as you
depict it.
(snip)
I agree with you (how unusual :-)) that Harry doing something
unworldly would be hard to relate to. It would also be out of
character. And I have a hard time (like Del) relating Harry to Love as
he's certainly no more loving than any other character and quite
capable of blazing hatred. So where does that leave us? As far as I
can see, with Harry's ability to feel pain and emotion, which
Voldemort can't do, having lost whatever humanity he once possessed.
Somehow the destruction of Voldemort is related to that capacity."

Del replies to all of it:
I agree totally with everything Carol said, and I also completely
agree with Lupinlore that Harry being completely filled with Love
would be too other-wordly to be believable (not to mention that as a
Christian I would find it somewhat sacrilegious) : there's no way
Harry can turn in less than 2 years from the Snape-hating Harry we see
at the end of OoP into a LV-loving person. At least I can't see such a
way that would be believable. Unless Harry has some
road-to-Damascus-type spiritual experience, maybe in the Love room (if
that's what it is). We'll see.

But I tend more to think like Carol, that it will have to do more with
Harry's humanity.

And of course there's still that unanswered question : what is that
power that Harry possesses that makes him the Vanquisher? What is it
that he has and that nobody else has?

Del