Redeeming Hagrid was Rewriting OotP

[pippin_999]

I said:

> IMHO, in the end Harry will realize he can replace his father 
only  as he did in PoA; by taking his father's place.  Harry must do 
the things his father failed to do:  accord with Snape,  expose the 
 secret traitor and finally save his beloved from Voldemort. 
(SHIPping Note: this is why I don't see H/H as a long 
term possibility. It would be a waste of Hermione's heroic 
 potential for her to need Harry to rescue her from Lord V.)<
 

Barb:
>>Well, I'm not sure he needs to find accord with Snape as 
much as Snape needs to stop visiting the sins of the father on 
the son.  If he hadn't done that to begin with, they probably 
wouldn't have the adversarial relationship that they do.  Harry has 
been responding to Snape's patent unfairness all along.  He's 
lived with that all of his live, at the Dursleys, and perhaps he 
thought he could escape it at Hogwarts.  Just as Sirius needed 
to see that Harry wasn't James, Snape needs to see that as well.  
I don't really see that as Harry's problem but Snape's.<<


"At the sight of [Snape] Harry felt a great rush of hatred beyond 
anything he felt toward Malfoy... Whatever Dumbledore said, he 
would never forgive Snape...never..." --OOP ch.38

 Snape basically has stopped seeing Harry as James, IMO. The 
Occlumency lessons did that much good at least. Trouble is,  
Harry can't bear to think that  Sirius died because he, Harry, was 
hoodwinked by Voldemort. Harry doesn't know how to forgive 
himself for that and so he's displaced all his guilty feelings on to 
Snape. As of the end of OOP, the undeserved hatred shoe is on 
the other foot.

Barb:
>>Now, I would have thought exposing the secret traitor would 
have been a priority before OotP, but that's when the purpose of 
that would seem to have been to clear Sirius.  As that is no 
longer a concern (although he could be cleared posthumously, I 
suppose), Peter must serve some other purpose.  (I thought it 
was weird that he was nowhere to be seen in OotP.)  It seemed 
that Dumbledore telling Harry that Peter is indebted to him was a 
clear foreshadowing of Peter turning on Voldemort and doing 
something to benefit the good guys.  Does NO ONE else see 
Peter redeeming himself?  Probably only just before buying the 
farm, yeah, but still. ;)<<

Yes! Yes! I didn't want to clutter my post with Evil!Lupin theory,
but yes, Peter will redeem himself. IMO, Peter was absent from 
OOP because JKR isn't ready to reveal that he wasn't the chief 
traitor to the Order.

Barb:
>>I also don't see Harry rescuing a damsel-in-distress from 
Voldemort as part of the climactic conclusion (pun intended 
<eg>) to the series.  I sort of think he's already been there and 
done that in CoS.  At that stage, Ginny was young enough to be 
truly helpless.  At this point in the series, none of the possible 
female candidates for Harry-counterparts are really frail and 
helpless enough for this to ring true.  The damsels have all 
grown up and are forces to be reckoned with in their own right.<<

No, I don't think Ginny needs to reprise her fainting damsel 
routine. But I wouldn't call Lily frail and helpless either. When 
all else failed, Lily died  in an act of passive resistance. That 
scenario has to repeat itself  so that Harry can do what James 
did not and make such a sacrifice unnecessary.  It would be a 
waste of Hermione's long struggle to get to the point where she 
doesn't freeze in battle  (she's there!)  and fights to win (erm, not 
quite), to cast her in the passive resistance role at the end. As for
Luna, she  is so strong in her acceptance already that for her to 
be the one who accepts her death as the price of victory would 
seem too pat.

Pippin