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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 123183


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> Alla:
> 
> Thank you for your input, I appreciate it, but let  me state it 
> again - my question and argument was  mainly not about 
whether Harry  should exercise the choice and be a Hero ( do we 
all have any doubt  that he will be?)
> 
> My main argument was that Harry was NOT given the 
possibility to  exercise the conscious choice of whether to  be a 
Hero or not ( and  frankly, I would perfectly understand him if he 
would not want  to. :))) while at the same time Harry is being 
blamed for acting  selfishly and immaturely in OOP. It had been 
said that his behaviour  could cost WW the war, so in that context 
I was asking - why should  Harry care, when they treat him that 
badly AND force him to be their  weapon?
> 

Pippin:
I think you are leaving Voldemort's choices out of the equation 
here. True prophecy, Firenze tells us,  does not foretell trivial 
events, therefore there is no way that Harry can be a trivial 
person. Even if Harry slips away to Sidney AU and becomes a 
used broomstick peddler.  As prophecy is not a branch of magic 
Voldemort has neglected, he must know this.

Having set his sights on immortality, Voldemort must 
eliminate all  who stand between him and his goal, and his 
potential vanquisher is first on the list. Is that reasonable? No, 
but reasonable people do not have  "Evil Overlord" on their 
resume.

Regardless of whether Harry chooses to be a weapon or not, he 
will remain  Voldemort's chosen target. Whatever Harry has been 
put through, the necessity  was not  to make Harry a better 
weapon. The necessity was to make him a harder target.

As for the theme of choice, it is true that if Harry takes what he 
has been told seriously he has no choice but to fight or die. But 
he does have the choice of not taking it seriously, just as Fudge 
did.

Pippin