Heroes in the Harry Potter Series

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No: HPFGUIDX 176387

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowena_grunnionffitch" 
<G3_Princess at ...> wrote:
>
> > houyhnhnm:
> >
> > Maybe if Dumbledore had nurtured  his students and
> > staff instead of focusing on his secret magical plan,
> > seen and fostered their potential as human beings
> > rather than sacrificing that potential to their
> > usefulness as tools, Voldemort might never have come back.
> 
> > That kind of proves my point.  A world in which a mother
> > refusing to stand aside and allow her child to be murdered
> > is such a rare marvel as to invoke magic is a world in
> > dire need of "simple human love".
> 
>   Rowena:
> 
>   Of course if DD et-al had acted as you wanted - and if it had the
> effect you predict - there'd have been no series! ;-)
> 
>   BTW I really don't think self sacrifice on behalf of one's 
children
> need be rare to have magical repurcussions.
>
Jenni from Alabama responds:

I agree with you Rowena. I don't think it is rare! I think any loving 
mother would sacrifice her life for her child. It still doesn't 
lessen the impact it has. It's still beautiful. But I also think that 
too much emphasis is placed on Lily's sacrifice. What about James? He 
died trying to save Harry AND Lily. I personally would love to have 
seen JK put in the final book that Harry was doubly protected... not 
just by his mother's sacrifice but his father's as well. 

As far as Dumbledore preventing Voldy's return... if Fudge had 
listened to Dumbledore and Harry to begin with and gone after the 
Death Eaters and Voldemort in that graveyard as soon as Harry said 
Voldy was back, Voldy could have been prevented from gaining 
followers and could have been defeated. In the graveyard there were 
less than a dozen Death Eaters and Riddle. Fudge could have taken an 
army of Aurors and overwhelmed them.