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

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 176170

lizzyben:

>>>>Now that we know DD's plan, his "training" off Harry seems even more
cold-blooded. For example, it's pretty clear now that DD *did* intend
to send 11-year-old Harry to face Quirrel/LV - giving Harry practice
in facing LV & death. Same deal w/the COS - rewarding Harry for
showing "personal loyalty" to DD, encouraging a need to be the hero &
save people. DD gives extra points to Harry for saving Fleur's sister,
facing Quirell, etc. All these things encourage 3 things in Harry: an
absolute loyalty to DD, a "saving-people-thing", & a willingness to die. 

So in a sense, it was an easy choice for Harry to make - it was almost
a habit. <<<


Marion (delurking for a minute before diving under again):

So true. The scary bit is that the whole series is a story about a young boy who is told exactly what evil is and which part of the human race embodies that evil. He is told that he alone can save his people from this evil. He does so, even joining a secret society and a secret army, training himself and others to defeat Evil. He gets told that in order to defeat Evil he is to sacrifice himself. He is told that there is an afterlife and that, if he is courageous there will be rewards in the afterlife and loads of people who will welcome him in that afterlife with open arms.
And then, just as he has been told to do by his bearded master, he highjacks a jumbojet and flies it into the Twin Towers.

Uh.

No, he takes a few packets of Sarin and steps on the train to Tokyo during rush hour and..

Uh, well, you get my point.

Dumbledore has all the characteristics of a Bin Laden and a Shoko Asahara.

Harry Potter is just as courageous as a terrorist bomber. You have to admit, suicide bombers are pretty courageous. They willingly lay down their lives for an ideal, to fight what they think is Evil.
Yup, suicide bombers are pretty courageous.
I just don't think them very admirable, that's all.

Marion (going back to thesis and lurkerdom)

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