GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182197

> > Pippin:
> > According to JKR, they were full time Order members.
> > If they hadn't gone into hiding, wouldn't they have been killed a 
> lot sooner?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Um, no, not for a fact. We know that not all order members were 
> killed. Who is to say that Lily and James would not have been among 
> the living?


Pippin:
I mean that Lily and James decided that they were willing to  defy
Voldemort although they knew that Voldemort  was killing anyone who
did that, and no one escaped him for long. They didn't go into  hiding
to protect their own lives, they did it to protect Harry. Do you think
they were cowards like Karkaroff?
 
>  
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Oh? I would speculate that they would have tried their hardest to
get rid of Voldemort. It is possible that eventually they would have 
succeeded, don't you think?
> Alla:
> 
> That's only one scenario of what could have happened in my opinion. 
> Another one is for example - Light wins, after hard struggle, yes. 
> Maybe adults for a change would take the first seats in the fight.

Pippin:
Adults, but not Lily and James? IMO, they wouldn't have wanted it that
way. If somebody had to die to bring Voldemort down,  they
wanted to be that person, just as Harry did. 

Alla:
> Why would Dumbledore die much sooner by the way? You mean after he 
> tried ring horcrux on or sooner than that?

Pippin:
I mean Voldemort would have continued to increase his power until, as
in canon, he was no longer afraid to attack Dumbledore. 

Alla:
> Who knows, maybe Dumbledore's earlier death would have done GOOD to 
> order members, who would have learned to not depend on one person so 
> much IMO.
>
 
Pippin:
LOL! Like they did when  Dumbledore died in canon?  They just
transferred all their hopes to Harry and depended on him instead.

What you want would take a significant cultural change IMO -- the WW
seems to expect that when a mighty dark wizard arises, a mighty white
wizard will appear to fight him. The WW also had the opportunity to
take on Grindelwald without DD's help, but they didn't.


Pippin