Draco and Harry WAS: Re: Nice vs. Good, honesty, and Snape

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 153286


> Alla:
>
> Annoying and bothersome? I beg to differ. If Harry's inquiries
bothered
> Ron and Hermione a bit less, Ron may have not ended up almost dead,
IMO.
>
> And Harry's gut did turn out to be absolutely correct, did it not?
>
> It seems to me that Harry cannot win, he is wrong when he does not go
> to adults with his concerns and when he does to to pretty much
> everybody with his concerns, he is wrong too.
>
> JMO,
>
> Alla,
>
> who is still gets angry at DD for not stopping Draco, if he knew about
> his plans and putting the lifes of many students in danger.
>



Well, maybe it didn't come out right. Basically, it frustraited me that
Harry became EXTREMELY obsessed and that nothing was done or could be
done about his concerns. There were some points that bothered me a lot,
especially when I read it the first time.

There was no physical proof or if there was, such as at the Malfoy
Mansion, it could not be found,  Harry just seems to have no luck going
to adults when he has concerns. Either he goes to them and he is RIGHT
and they cannot see his POV, or see the truth in the situation, or he
keeps his mouth shut and finds out the hard way (as was when he was
younger it seems).  He has grown a lot and finally learned to approach
adults initially even though they have not come to necessarily respect
or listen to his concerns. Harry seems to always be right, in a way. As
he gets older, he "gut feelings" are getting more and more on the dot.
It seems to me that sometime he let his fixation on an idea cloud his
judgement. But, though this happened, the events worked themselves out
and reveled the true bad guy and allowed Harry to save the day. 
Hopefully since now he has finally proved Snape to be the Bad Guy
(whether he is truely evil or not),  people will begin to respect and
listen to, his instincts/ideas. DD is gone and now the only person
standing in VMs way is this 16/17 year old boy. It is time for them to
recognize Harry as the powerfil wizard and man he is and will become.

I wish too that DD would have stopped Draco. But as with the whole
Miltonic idea of Free will, God (ie DD in this case), knows whats going
to happen, knows that people are going to get hurt and die, but allows
people and the events to play themselves out without stepping in to save
himself.  For whatever reason DD did not stop Draco. Was it to allow
Snape to continue on as a spy and save his cover/life? Was it to show
Draco that he was not a murderer and see the error of his ways?  Make
Harry take that last step towards acceptance of his fate? Make the
Ultimate sacrifice? Think of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan
sacrificed himself to save Edmund, the traitor, and allow Peter to take
charge. Now will DD miracuously ressurect himself? Part of me says no. I
don't know, but Harry has now come to accept his Lot and is going to
take charge instead of telling others and stepping back. It is Harry's
turn to lead.

Unfortunately, we won't find out until 2007 or later. :(






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