[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 182200

>> 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?


Shelley now:
Cowards- subject to opinion, no? What is the difference between the hiding 
that James and Lilly did (to protect themselves and their baby), and the 
hiding that Karkaroff did (to protect himself), and the hiding that so many 
had to do during DH? How many families all had to run away, fearing 
Voldemort? Even Hermione hid her parents. All were running/hiding from 
Voldemort or the MOM (which, essentially was doing the work of Voldemort) in 
what seemed like an unwinnable situation. "He who runs away lives to fight 
another day." I don't think Karkaroff was a coward- I just think he knew 
that Voldemort would look into his mind, see that he no longer supported 
him, and that he would be dead instantly if he was lucky, tortured and left 
to live for a while before being killed if he was unlucky. To run meant a 
chance that someone else would be able to take out Voldemort, or that he 
might find a way to be of use later on. I think he had no choice, and that 
for me is what differentiates him and a real coward- a real coward has a 
choice and chooses to run anyway. What Lupin tried to do to abandon his 
family was cowardly, as Harry saw it. Karkaroff, I think, knew he was a dead 
man, and his running for only for self preservation because his very wicked 
former master who would not have forgiven or taken him back. I think, just 
like Rowling did throughout the series, that she gave a single example of 
something that would reappear with importance later, and Karkaroff was the 
first example of someone who would run and hide from Voldemort- some with 
success, and some ending anyway in death. He was the example that again, 
people had a lot to fear of Voldemort, and that it was starting all over 
again.