Which scene we hated more or loved WAS: Re: Why not Actually Re-Write?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
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> > va32h:
> 
> I liked and disliked that scene.  Harry as a willing sacrifice?  Fine,
> good, touching etc.  His parents rooting him on?  Turned my stomach. 
>  Maybe that just says something about me as a mom - I'd be hugging my
> babies and saying "let somebody else save the world!"  Even Jesus
> asked "why Father why?"  
> 
> I think James, Sirius and Lily could have a tad less enthusiasm for
> sending Harry to his death, is all I'm saying. 
> 
> va32h

Sue here:

I agree totally! I'm guessing, though, that they weren't actually there, they were just pulled 
up out of Harry's mind, saying the things he needed them to say, so that he could go 
ahead with what he had to do. Like you, I think if they had actually been there, they would 
have begged him not to do it. I think, also, that it's a tribute to that scene in The Lion, The 
Witch and the Wardrobe, where Aslan walks to the White Witch's camp, accompanied by 
Susan and Lucy, and all he wants is not to be alone.