regarding moral change, and mastering death

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 173603

I didn't see a moral change in Harry, as in a change in the  
principles which guide one's life... or did we?

and that Master of Death thing...

Remember how Harry describes himself as "Harry, just Harry…" . He  
wants just a normal life, not really one of high adventure, danger,  
nor to be pivotally critical in history. He doesn't want to be 'The  
Chosen One."

What he thinks he wants and what he *is* are two different things.

He thinks that he can fight Voldemort, but might die trying. He is  
still attached to the idea of being alive, to being 'just Harry', and  
when this is over, he can be, just Harry.

He casts off Ginny, for instance, knowing the threat to her. He knows  
that he is protecting her future, because his future life is with  
her. He is attached to Life.

It is when he gives up this attachment to Life that he becomes Master  
of Death. The paradox of the prophecy has been discussed to death -  
of one, or the other, or both, or not. The paradox is not resolvable  
as long as we cling to Life… as lonfg as we cling to thinking that  
Life and Death are not the same thing.

But when Harry gives up attachment to Life, when he gives up the idea  
of coming out of the exchange alive, then - he is truly alive…

… and, consequently can't be killed.

Is this the moral change?

When he gives up all his conceptions and ideas about what his life  
is, or could be, or what he wants it to be, when he sees clearly that  
the only inevitable thing is dying, then he can't be killed. That is  
Master of Death.

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