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
No: HPFGUIDX 141525
> 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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