Was Death an easy choice for Harry to make WAS: Re:Back to Slytherin House

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 176161

> lizzyben:
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> Life vs. Death, I don't see as a big crisis for Harry. DD has trained
> Harry to be willing to sacrifice himself since SS at least. And Harry
> has always been somewhat drawn to death - the Dementors, the Veil, 
the
> Resurrection Stone, etc. What w/his loved ones cheering him one, and
> the grief he was in, it was almost an easy choice for him to make. 
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Alla:
 Almost easy choice to make for Harry, eh? 

"The suffocating feeling extinguished the end of the sentence, he 
could not go on" - p.696

"Ripples of cold undulated over Harry's skin. he wanted to  shout out 
in the night, he wanted Ginny to know that he was there, he wanted her 
to know where he was going. he wanted to be stopped, to be dragged 
back, to be sent back home..." - p.697

But that was before his loved ones erm "cheered him on" as you said 
and as I would say gave their love to him.

Let's see how "easy" it became for Harry then.

"Nobody spoke. They seemed as scared as Harry, whose heart was now 
throwing himself against his ribs as though determined to escape the 
body he was about to cast aside. His hands were sweating as he pulled 
off the Invisibiluty Cloak and stuffed beneath his robes, with his 
wand. He did not want to be tempted to fight.
"I was. It seems... mistaken," said Voldemort.
"You weren't.

Harry said it as loudly as he could, with all the force he could 
master. He did not want to sound afraid." - p.703.


Alla:
That's some strange choice of words for even **almost an easy choice 
to make** Does not read like easy one to me.  To me it reads like 
courageous sacrifice, not an easy choice at all. IMO of course.