Harry's reasoning regarding Narcissa's lie is faulty

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Thu Oct 18 22:33:00 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 178076

Snorky:
> When Narcissa lied to Voldemort that Harry was dead, Harry reasoned 
> that she lied because she wouldn't be allowed into the Castle  
> quickly if she wasn't going in as part of a victory march.  Perhaps 
> all the stress of dying and coming back muddled Harry's reasoning. 
> The death eaters would have had no trouble finishing Harry off there 
> and then if she had said he was alive. If wands didn't work, at least 
> one of them had a knife.

Pippin:
Narcissa couldn't have known whether it would be easy to finish Harry
off, since she couldn't have any idea why he was still alive in the 
first place. She wasn't listening in on Dumbledore's explanation.:)

OTOH, she could be certain that if Voldemort thought Harry was dead, 
he would return at once to Hogwarts to brag of his victory.

Pippin





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