Easier / Insecure!Ron + Hermione / The sword in the pond

[pippin_999]

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> And Pippin replied in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/186358>:
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> << Not if you finish the sentence "easier than getting killed." >>
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> I find the rest of Pippin's post to be insightful, but I don't agree with this one sentence.
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> And these are examples in which it is MUCH EASIER to die. Physically painful and mentally both scary and distasteful, but the person can scream, or cry, or pray to be found acceptable to go to Heaven, or close their eyes and grit their teeth and try to be spartan, but in any of those cases, they WILL die without making any choice or doing any act to bring on death (other than having gotten into the situation in the first place, but I mean once they are in the situation). Something that happens without any action or choice at all on one's part is EASIER than taking an action, any action, let alone this action.

Pippin:
I take your point. But  Peter was going to be fed to Nagini if he failed Voldemort (GoF ch 29). So I will correct my sentence to  "easier than  offering yourself as prey for a giant snake." :) 

Voldemort killed Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins and Charity Burbage before letting Nagini devour them, but they hadn't betrayed him. If I were Peter, I would be by no means sure that Voldemort would give me a quick death. 

Pippin