Wands and Wizards...Again

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 183658

> > Magpie:
> > He saves Dudley at the beginning of OotP after he's just been 
> > fighting with him.

> Pippin:
> True. But he had to drive the dementors off anyway, to save 
> himself. I give Harry full marks for helping Dudley to get home. 
> But he wasn't putting himself in any more danger by doing it.

SSSusan:
I don't know.  He wouldn't have been in more danger from the ministry, 
because he had already used magic in front of a Muggle, but he *could* 
have high-tailed it out of there a whole lot faster if he wasn't 
lugging Dudley along with him.  To me, that did leave him open to more 
danger.

I took this action towards Dudley as something that *really* spoke 
volumes about what Harry is all about, about what he can stand by and 
let happen and what he can't.  


Pippin: 
> Harry doesn't set out to become a hero and become something else in
> the course of his journey. But he has to grow in order to become a
> hero who can save the WW from Voldemort. If anyone had told him, at
> the age of eleven, what he was going to have to go through to save the
> WW, he'd probably have stayed in the cupboard. I would.
> 

SSSusan:
Do you really think so?  

While I agree with you that he had to grow along the way, in order to 
become a hero, I don't think he'd have stayed in his cupboard.  *I* 
would have, but I don't think Harry would have. :)

He might well have doubted that he could do anything, that he could BE 
a hero, but I don't think he'd have run & hidden.  I mean, honestly, 
it's only a few months later, and Harry's still 11, when he decides he 
*will* risk his life and face Fluffy and all those professorial 
enchantments & protections, to prevent Voldemort from gaining the Stone.

True, he doesn't yet know the prophecy, but he knows Voldy tried to 
kill him once and will again if he returns.  I think a lot of this was 
in Harry all along, from the get-go.

Siriusly Snapey Susan