Snape as Harry's protector or not WAS Snape and moral courage LONG

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184705

> > Pippin:
> > But how is that different than the feeling you are ascribing to
James,etc? As if Harry is just theirs, and has no connection to anyone
else in the world? 
> > 
> > Do you think, if they had known that Voldemort was going to offer
Lily a chance to live at her son's expense, that they would have told
her to take it? Would she have been the person they loved if she had?
> 
> Montavilla47:
> I'm not sure what you are saying here or what relationship it has
> to what I was saying, because I'm not sure how this all relates
> to James or Lily.  Could you please clarify?


Pippin:
I agree  that Snape had to be almost psychotically out of touch with
reality to think that Lily Potter could ever have found any happiness
as a DE!chick. (Though to give Snape his due, SWM!Lily was   impressed
with Bullyboy!James despite herself.)

But it seems to me that James, Lily, Sirius and Lupin would have to be
equally in denial to think that Harry could be happy to run off
somewhere and hide from Voldemort, leaving others to fight and die
alone. Distance doesn't matter to the scar connection, unfortunately.
It's not as if Harry could have lived his life in blissful ignorance
if only Dumbledore had left him alone. 


Harry is a part of his world just as much as Lily was a part of hers.
Just as it was incredibly selfish and self-absorbed of Snape to think
that he could rip Lily away from her world, it would be, IMO
incredibly selfish and self-absorbed of Harry's family to think that
Harry's world would be well lost if Harry was safe and happy
somewhere. It wouldn't even be possible, unless Harry were a very
different person than the Harry they knew. Obviously you don't see it
that way. What am I missing?

I don't think the living Potters et al, would have *liked* it. I
wouldn't like it if  my grown son decided to throw himself in front of
a truck to save a baby. God forbid. But what kind of person would say
that he *shouldn't* do it? 

I can see where it seems weird that the revenants don't show any
denial at all. But then why should they? Spirits who can no longer be
deceived by worldly appearances wouldn't need to doubt anything. 

Revenant Lily does not act as if she is about to be bereaved of her
son, because she isn't. He is about to join her. And he is, in a way,
validating the choice that she made, to save him instead of herself.

Pippin