The importance of death

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 147259

On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 05:04 PM, lupinlore wrote:

> That is probably part of the problem I have with OOTP and GoF.  I
> just don't buy that Harry would be so affected by the death of a
> classmate he hardly knew, for one thing.  True, there are a lot of
> other circumstances surrounding that death that were traumatic, and
> which I could see affecting Harry in the way she displayed, but 
those
> aren't the things dwelled on in OOTP.  Rather it is the fact of
> Cedric's death, which, considering that Harry had already been the
> instrument of the death of Quirrel, hardly seemed cause for such
> emotional overkill


But Quirrel had virtually ceased to exist as Quirrel by the time of 
his death. He had Lord Voldemort parasitic upon him, and must have 
been doomed even if Voldemort had succeeded in obtaining the Stone.  
It was Voldemort who had brought Quirrel to the Mirror, Voldemort 
who forced him to touch Harry, Voldemort who forced Quirrel to be 
the instrument of his will.  If person A pushes person B in front of 
a bus, the bus driver is not culpable, and it seems to me that Harry 
is the bus driver vis a vis Quirrel.  On the other hand, Cedric need 
not have been in the graveyard- Harry has brought him there by 
suggesting they took the Cup together. Harry is unconscious  while 
DD or whoever disposes of whatever was left of Quirrel, but Harry 
has to take Cedric's body back to the Diggorys. I would have thought 
that was traumatic enough, even without the surrounding events in 
the graveyard.

Leah