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

juli17 at aol.com juli17 at aol.com
Thu Oct 13 01:54:09 UTC 2005


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> Pippin:

> 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. 
 
Nora:

Okay, this raises a question I've been thinking of, about the  
ultimate denoument.

Can you imagine, Pippin, a scenario in which the  final showdown with 
Harry and Voldemort is *not* going to be any kind of  super skillz 
dueling situation, but something actually different from the  'kill or 
be killed' scenario?  Snape tells Harry to close his mind, but  
Dumbledore tells us at the end of OotP, in Harry's possession (surely  
the most personal encounter possible with Voldie), that it's his open  
heart that saved him, not his closed mind.

Given the superpowers of  love magic in the Potterverse, does Harry 
need to learn how to close his  mind, to shut himself off--or could 
our final solution involve the emotions  primary over the intellect, 
opening up to somehow  conquer?


 
 
Julie now:
I think Harry does need to learn how to close his mind, or at least
to control his emotions to some degree. Twice now Harry's gone 
half-witted while fighting someone because of his emotions, both
times trying to Crucio someone (first Bella, then Snape). Love may
be Harry's saving grace, but his inability to control his emotions
may also be his downfall--i.e. making decisions based on his  strong
emotions may save him or doom him. That's not unusual--one's  greatest
asset are often also one's greatest weakness, depending on  how
it is used. (Just as Snape's tendency to cold calculation has  been
both an asset, and his downfall in HBP.)
 
Julie 


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