Harry IS Snape.

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141355

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Jones <kjones at t...> wrote:
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> <massive snip>
> 
> > The enormous contrast between Snape and Harry is Harry's inability to 
> > sacrifice anyone for the good of the cause. Harry already refused to 
> > allow the death of Peter Pettigrew, who became the one responsible 
> > for the return of Voldemort. This might make Harry "good" and a hero 
> > in the eyes of many, but his decision was obviously the wrong one in 
> > lives cost as a result.
> 
> How do you reconcile that Realpolitiker reading with the Dumbledore-
> stated (and thus probably authorially sanctioned) moral grounds on 
> which Harry spared Peter's life?  Dumbledore says, pretty flat out, 
> that it was The Right Thing To Do, regardless of the outcome in later 
> books.  In a sense, killing Pettigrew is the *easy* thing to do--
> gratifying the vengeance-instinct and all of that--while letting him 
> live and remain an agent in play on the field is the hard, yet morally 
> correct, thing to do.

I think that DD stated it was the right thing to do to spare Peter's
life, because of the life debt that Peter now owes him.  p 427 Am Ed
PoA hardcover:
DD speaks:
"pettigrew owes his life to you.  You have sent Voldemort a deputy who
is in your debt....Wehn one wizard saves another wizard's life, if
creates a certain bond between them....and I'm much mistaken if
Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter".

It comes down to this - DD told Harry he did the right thing, because
of the action it created - a life debt - a wizard in Voldy's camp who
is beholden to Harry.  As DD stated, this is magic at its deepest, its
most impenetrable.  This is Peter's role in book 7.

> 
 
big old snip here....
> 
> Many a poster, in the past, has tried to read HP as akin to John 
> LeCarre, with the same ethical morasses and similar solutions.  I have 
> to admit that I don't quite see it, but I do see a generally positive 
> outcome for Harry's moral instinct in this situation.  It's not real 
> life, but since when has fiction ever been?
> 
John LeCarre's "The Spy who came in from the Cold".  It explains the
real spy business, not the James Bond stuff that most people think of
when they think of spys.  People who are flawed, make mistakes,
sometimes having to make choices that aren't easy.  How a good person
could do *bad things* and how a bad person could be on the *good
side*.  That is the book that I and others have been referring to as
far as Snape's role.

> -Nora dries her shoes out from yesterday's deluge
>
me too...I live in the NE and it is a miserable weekend.

colebiancardi