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

[Sali Morris]

No: HPFGUIDX 176176

Marion:
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.

Sali:
I didn't really want to get involved in this but I have to say that Harry
strikes me as a very strange sort of terrorist/suicide bomber, laying down
his life in such a manner that the only person who gets hurt (aside from
himself) is the one person trying to kill him and in a situation which calls
for no fight, no explosion, no possibility where anyone else can get
accidentally caught in the crossfire. A situation where the only weapon
(lets say weapon for the sake on analogy) fired was not fired (or caused to
be fired) by him. In fact, a situation that his opponent had been trying to
draw him into, as opposed to a sneak attack on innocents and non-combatants.
This was also something that was happening at the height of a war, that both
sides had been engaged in for some time. It did not happen out of the blue
in the middle of peace, or a long distance from where any actual fighting
was going on.

I am sorry but I really don't see where the similarity between Harry and a
suicide bomber lies apart from in possible brainwashing and definite
manipulation from an authority figure. And that happens in plenty of
situations that do not lead to suicide bombing.


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