[HPforGrownups] Sending Voldie through the Veil (Was: Where will the "great battle" be)
Kemper
iam.kemper at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 06:07:24 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 161983
> Carol wrote:
> ...
> I want Harry to rise above ... brutality and
> violence, to find a way to save the WW that does not sanction violence
> for the good guys--not to mention that if Harry's weapon is Love, as
> Dumbledore says it is, his method of destroying Voldemort must be
> consonant with that weapon, as none of your suggestions is.
>
> I'm also concerned about the psychological effects that the act of
> killing, even in self-defense, would create in the mind of a
> seventeen-year-old harry.
> ... I don't want Harry to tarnish his innocence, much less to feel
> guilt of any sort for ridding the world of Voldemort, or to suffer any
> sort of psychological consequences.
>
> He himself thinks in OoP that he has to commit murder or be murdered.
> .... I don't want Harry to have
> to, or at least I want him to do it in a way that doesn't seem like
> murder, that allows both him and Voldemort to see that death is not
> the end of everything that LV thinks it is. Only sending him through
> the Veil can do that, IMO. (And there's the secondary consideration of
> getting Sirius Black's body back. It also provides a way for JKR to
> bring in the power of possession, Harry possessing Voldemort rather
> than the other way around.)
>
>
> Carol, who thinks that sending Voldemort through the Veil fits the
> Love requirement and the Prophecy better than any method we've yet
> seen and certainly better than decapitation (which I expect will
> happen not to LV but to Nagini)
Kemper now:
I like Steve's idea of Harry taking LV beyond the veil where he not only
vanquishes the Dark Lord but rescues the Black Godfather.
However, there's another 'prop' presented in OoP besides the Veil: the room
that is locked at all times.
This room "contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible
that death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature." This
always locked room holds "the power... [that Harry] possesses in such
quantities and which Voldemort has not at all."
And though I agree with Sarah that JKR has shown us much death and murder, I
like you, do not want to see Harry as killer. That would be a great
disappointed.
So, here's a supposition... what if Harry gets LV to open the door or to
enter the room of the door?
If LV was surrounded and filled with the power he knows not, would he feel
and be so consumed by guilt and regret that _he_ would open the Veil and
walk beyond it?
Kemper
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