Why Dumbledore had to die

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No: HPFGUIDX 150932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat4001" <zarleycat at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
> massive snippage
> > I have frequently fantasized a final scene in which Harry's 
friends
> > willingly step forward and place themselves between Harry and
> > Voldemort. Each gladly willing to die so that their friend Harry 
> can
> > live and fight on much like Lily gladly and willingly dies to 
save 
> her
> > son. That is power; that is power that Voldemort never can and 
> never
> > will understand. 
> 
> Marianne:
> 
> I don't recall if anyone else has posted anything similar to 
this.  
> I find this thought vaguely disturbing and I don't really know 
why. 
> Maybe it's the idea that, if other people are so willing to leap 
> between danger and Harry, that it keeps removing the burden of 
> defeating Voldemort from Harry.  OTOH, I can readily see Harry's 
> allies dashing forward to take the shot aimed at Harry with the 
idea 
> that this will help Harry move on.  Can anyone not believe that 
Ron 
> would throw himself in front of an AK aimed at Harry, just so that 
> Harry would survive and fight on against evil?
> 
> The willingness to sacrifice oneself so that the Hero can continue 
> on his journey, whether out of love for the Hero or a willingness 
to 
> sacrifice oneself for the greater good, certainly seems to be 
> something that Voldemort would not understand.  And this could 
make 
> for a powerful tool...

I find it disturbing because really I can't see their sacrifices as 
being anything but pointless. Oh if it allowed Harry to regain his 
balance or clear his head then the sacrifice would make sense to me 
but if all of Harry's friends stepped in front of him before the 
final battle to me, IMO, it would be glorified suicide, selfish, and 
utterly contrary to what Harry is trying to do. I'm being a little 
overly harsh here but to step in front of Harry before he confronts 
Voldemort is to deny Harry's entire mission, his goal in life before 
he even truly realized it, to place ones need to see Harry survive 
in front of ones need to see Harry accomplish what must be done. If 
Ron or Hermione or Colin or Draco or Snape or anyone dies because 
they place themselves between Harry and Voldemort and it isn't 
for "tactical" reasons (i.e. to save Harry like Lily did) but to 
prove that their willing to go out with Harry or stand with Harry or 
something like that then their sacrifice is basically pointless.

Imagine being Harry and after having defeated Voldemort realizing 
that Ron and Hermione shouldn't have stood in front of him and that 
they died for nothing. That to me would be a tragedy. 

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