Dumbledore's pleading/What Horcruxes Dumbledore and Harry destroyed?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 141505

Pippin  wrote:
>
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> 
> Destroying the horcruxes will not bring Harry any nearer to being
> able to defeat Voldemort in combat -- he will still be an inferior 
duellist,
> crippled by his inability to close his mind. 
> 
> His only hope is a secret weapon, and that weapon, IMO, is Severus 
Snape, 
> a weapon so secret that Harry himself has no idea what it is, just 
as he
> had no idea that the wands would lock or that Voldemort's attempt 
to
> possess him would fail.
> 

Well, the problem with THAT is that should it play out, the books 
are not really about Harry at all.  They are, instead, about the 
wonderful plotting and plans of Albus Dumbledore, whose will reaches 
out even beyond the grave to accomplish the downfall of Voldemort.  
And to a lesser extent about the brave and resourceful spy, Severus 
Snape, who sacrifices himself and his mentor to be in position to 
help an ignorant and ungrateful boy accomplish a destiny for which 
he is not worthy.  Only thirdly would they be the story of a boy 
whose choices are not really the crux of the plot after all, since 
they are only the prologue that allows our hero, Severus Snape, to 
intervene, show his true colors, and save the day.

And THAT, I submit, would be a betrayal worse than anything JKR has 
pulled up to this point.  THAT would in effect be saying "AHA, 
fooled you!  You thought this was a story about a boy wizard and his 
choices, didn't you?  Instead it's a story about a thick-headed boy 
who becomes the perfect unwitting pawn in a subtle and dangerous 
scheme authored by an elderly genius and his faithful right-hand 
man!"


Lupinlore