Potter's Teacher's Edition

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 175668

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:

Betsy HP

  Voldemort died of course; Harry 
> achieved the vengence he wanted. 

Renee:
Are you really saying that in the end it was all about Harry's
vengeange? By the time we reach the point of the story where Harry
believes he must die to vanquish Voldemort, we read nothing more about
vengeance, which would be rather peculiar if vengeance was foremost on
his mind. Instead, we see him acknowledge - and on rereading the text
I realised that it was deaths of Lupin and Tonks that really hammered
this home - that he must put an end to the violence, prevent any more
people from dying for his sake. So he sacrifices himself - not to take
revenge on Voldemort, but to protect all those who are fighting for
him. It seems to me he has moved far beyond the point in HBP where it
still was about vengeance. 

Renee