Not getting this one..... LotR Spoiler

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No: HPFGUIDX 143268

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The way I read it is while LV is only capable of loving himself and 
no one else, when push comes to shove he will always sacrifice 
others to protect himself. Harry, on the other hand, is capable of 
loving others more than himself, which is a big part of why he is 
not afraid of dying. So should the situation arises Harry will not 
hesitate to do something that has the potential of killing himself 
if that will also kill LV, while LV won't sacrifice himself to kill 
Harry. 

I also think that tho LV had correctly predicted and taken advantage 
of Harry's tendency want to save others (sending the false image of 
Sirius being at the DoM in OotP) before, LV will also be liable to 
underestimate the effects of such selfless (love others first) 
sacrifice since he doesn't understand it. Just doesn't have the 
capability to understand compassion. After all, that is what 
destroyed him the first time at GH. 

<LotR Spoiler> 
I keep remembering the scene from LotR where Frodo showed Wormtongue 
mercy at Bag's End after the hobbits had banished old Saruman again, 
it was the contrast of the venomous Saruman and the mercy of Frodo 
that caused Wormtongue to snap and killed his own master. I think 
the plot dictates that there is something Wormtail has to do in Book 
7 to repay Harry his life debt.

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