Small choice in rotten apples

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 148418

Dung:

> Could either of you expand on how this might happen? Who does Harry 
> have to forgive and what magic will this set in motion? To my mind 
> it rather takes the bang out of Horcrux!Harry if he can assimilate 
> the Voldy fragment and destroy the last Horcrux without having to 
> make any difficult choices. How could this process of assimilation 
> be thematic? And where and how is it foreshadowed, or hinted at? 

houyhnhnm:

I don't think Harry will be able to assimilate the soul fragment
without making difficult choices.  Not all choices involve action or
even physical risk, though. Letting go of anger and viewing others
with compassion is a choice.  I think there is much foreshadowing in
Harry's growing ability to feel compassion, towards Ron, towards Luna.
 At the end of HBP, he is even able to feel pity for Draco.  And even
some for Tom Riddle.  Maybe this is why Dumbledore spent all his
sessions with Harry reviewing Tom Riddle's history through the
pensieve memories rather than teaching Harry DADA skills.

I think ultimately Harry has to forgive Riddle/Voldemort in order to
destroy him.  What kind of magic this will set in motion I don't know.
I am thinking of how LV could not bear to continue possessing Harry
when Harry was thinking of Sirius. Maybe the part of Voldemort's ego
that resides in the soul piece will be driven out in a similar manner
and the soul piece will become part of Harry's soul.  If the other
horcruxes have been destroyed at this point, then perhaps the survival
of LV's unnatural "body" is irrelevant.  Maybe he will melt into a
mound of brown sugar.

Along the way I think Harry will also have to forgive Snape and the
Dursleys.  These will be difficult choices indeed.  Much harder than
getting past a dragon, killing a basilisk, or duelling with Voldemort.