[HPforGrownups] We had to destroy this boy in order to save him...

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190753

> >Bart:
> >My take (and it took a couple of readings of DH to get to it). Morty was
> >going to marshal all his forces to kill Harry. So, the alternative to
> >Harry sacrificing himself was not living; it was dying anyway. DD
> >figured out something, however.
>
> >What DD realized is that if Harry was willing to sacrifice himself, and,
> >like the drunk, allowed Morty to AK him without any resistance, the
> >Mortysoul would be destroyed, and between that and the blood protection,
> >Harry would survive. However, if Harry knew this was the case in
> >advance, he would not be able to have the right frame of mind, since he
> >would know he wasn't really sacrificing himself. In other words, the
> >only way to save Harry's life was for Harry to willingly sacrifice
> >himself.


Bookcrazzzy:

That was my take as well, although I don't think I could have expressed it
so well!

Bookcrazzzy