Why should Harry save the WW? (Was: McG / DD / ...)

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Snorky:
(I wish I could find out who Alla is, but I can't. Sorry. Searching
for anything through "Search Archive" is a joke.)

Alla: 

Hi! I am not sure what you meant  by " find out who Alla is" ( it 
was amusing regardless :)), but here I am at your service.



Alla wrote earlier:
Same question. Why does Harry have a duty to save WW? I am not 
talking about metathinking look at all - because Harry is the hero 
of the story, etc. I am asking why Harry who does not know that he 
is the main character in the books has a duty to save WW, who ,IMO 
treats him quite horribly from times to times.


Snorky: 
Great question. I think Harry won't be saving only the WW, but the
regular world as well. Voldemort  and his deatheaters killed lots of
muggles, so it seems that the regular world would be in great danger
if Voldemort won. Harry wouldn't be much safer in the regular world 
if all he wanted to do was to save himself. And why is it Harry who 
has to save everything? Perhaps because he's just  in the wrong 
place at the wrong time. 


Alla:

Oh, I like that answer. Yes, there is a definite possibility that 
Harry will not be safe in "our world" till Voldemort is dead, but 
theoretically he can at least try to escape, right? We don't even 
know whether there are any Voldemort supporters in other countries 
besides Englad and whenever Durmstrang is , so theoretically there 
can be a safe haven for Harry in the muggle world, but all of this 
of course just speculation.


Snorky:

The question of whether Harry has the duty to save the WW brings up
the question of whether it is a good idea to save the WW. The WW
society is very flawed,  filled with seriously disturbed people who
wield immense power. It sort of reminds me of ourselves and weapons 
of mass destruction, etc. I think this topic was touched upon in one 
of the Must Read posts. (Sorry - I could not find it).  Perhaps a
resolution of this in the books will be that the entire WW will lose
its magic. I'm predicting it for book 7.
 
I won't go anymore into whether the WW deserves to lose its magic
since discussions of what's naughty or nice or  moral or immoral
don't interest me if they don't predict anything about the outcome of
the story or don't challenge or validate the realism of the
characters,  but it's another thought to ponder.


Alla:

Yes, absolutely - this is the angle that bugs me - not whether Harry 
is heroic or not to save them, but why does he owe them anything.

Probably the post you are talking about was Pip's  post about 
developments in MD theory. I said many times that I wholeheartedly 
agree with it. I believe that WW will die and be reborn just like 
Phoenix. I have no clue how it will happen, but I do think that it 
will happen, because indeed it IS a deeply flawed society, IMO.

Just my opinion,

Alla