[HPforGrownups] Re: Varying Views of Characters

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 190907

Steve:
> Harry was a soldier, Harry had a duty, part of the duty was to die at the right time; he did his duty like countless other soldiers that have been marched to their own death.
>
> As for Dumbledore sending him, that is the duty of a General, to send good men to their death, if it advances the cause of victory.

Bart:
Except for one little detail: Harry lived. And, at KC, we see that 
Dumbledore was as sure as he could get of such things that Harry WOULD 
live. That's a point I've been making continually in this conversation: 
paradoxically, the only way for Harry to survive was for him to believe 
he was sacrificing himself.

     Bart