Rewriting OotP was Redeeming Hagrid

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

<< 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. >>

What are you proposing that James should have done? By the time that
Voldemort found their hidey-hole, James shouted to Lily to take Harry
and run away while James held him off (as long as he could). He needed
to be better at dodging Avada Kedavra so that he could have held him
off long enough that Lily *could* have run away?

<< 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. >>

To me, OoP shows that JKR is more willing to be pat than we are. For
example, Hermione's blackmail of Rita Skeeter worked just fine despite
so many listies predicting it would come back to bite her.