Draco’s redemption consists of not leaving someone to burn to death.
Well that makes him better than Ron, Hermione and Harry who are going to leave a man to bleed to death in a rotted shack in the next chapter.
At this point, Pansy Parkinson damns all of Slytherin by pointing at Harry and shouting out, “But he’s there! Potter’s there! Someone grab him!”
I don’t understand why we our supposed to accept the damnation of Pansy and the other Slytherins, and who knows whether any of them actually agreed with Pansy’s demand to hand Harry over it’s not like anyone waited for them to give their opinions on the matter, for doing what Harry himself is about to do a mere three chapters from now!
And why shouldn’t Pansy want Harry given over to Voldemort if it means everyone else will live? One life in exchange for countless others isn’t that what Dumbledore will be preaching to Snape as the ‘Greater Good’ in the prince’s tale? Looking at it from her POV what has Harry ever done for her besides make life difficult for her Draco and shoot her and her classmates dirty looks? Why should everyone risk their lives for him and why do the other houses support Harry and raise their wands against the Slytherins anyway? What has he ever done to earn their loyalty?
The whole horcrux thing was messy from day #1. Rowling couldn't have 'horcrux detection' spells or Arithmantic theorems *proving* the number of horcruxes because then the whole surprise of Harry being a horcrux would have been untenable.
Actually I think this could have been an interesting story for DH. Well anything is better than what we have in DH really.
Lets say the trio begin studying horcruxes finding out that indeed seven in the magic number to be the most stable, or powerful form, or whatever, but wait they only have six things that Voldemort put pieces of his soul into (you would probably have to use something other than Nagini but that’s fine we can just have Dumbledore be wrong about her and have Harry be mad at him for that instead of this whole Grindewald business), so what is the seventh one? The hunt for known horcruxes begins as they try to figure out along the way what the final one is and over time Harry comes to realize that Voldemort went to kill the one who was prophesized to be his equal. What better way to prove his power and might then to make his final horcrux out of the murder of the one destined to defeat him? And what if he accidentally succeeded? Now Harry knows the truth in order to defeat Voldemort he must die. Is he willing to do that? Does he look for any other way in vain? I don’t know, but I do know that I find this a hundred times more interesting to think about than reading that Harry will go to his death because Dumbledore told him to.
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Date: 2009-12-09 10:50 pm (UTC)Well that makes him better than Ron, Hermione and Harry who are going to leave a man to bleed to death in a rotted shack in the next chapter.
At this point, Pansy Parkinson damns all of Slytherin by pointing at Harry and shouting out, “But he’s there! Potter’s there! Someone grab him!”
I don’t understand why we our supposed to accept the damnation of Pansy and the other Slytherins, and who knows whether any of them actually agreed with Pansy’s demand to hand Harry over it’s not like anyone waited for them to give their opinions on the matter, for doing what Harry himself is about to do a mere three chapters from now!
And why shouldn’t Pansy want Harry given over to Voldemort if it means everyone else will live? One life in exchange for countless others isn’t that what Dumbledore will be preaching to Snape as the ‘Greater Good’ in the prince’s tale? Looking at it from her POV what has Harry ever done for her besides make life difficult for her Draco and shoot her and her classmates dirty looks? Why should everyone risk their lives for him and why do the other houses support Harry and raise their wands against the Slytherins anyway? What has he ever done to earn their loyalty?
The whole horcrux thing was messy from day #1. Rowling couldn't have 'horcrux detection' spells or Arithmantic theorems *proving* the number of horcruxes because then the whole surprise of Harry being a horcrux would have been untenable.
Actually I think this could have been an interesting story for DH. Well anything is better than what we have in DH really.
Lets say the trio begin studying horcruxes finding out that indeed seven in the magic number to be the most stable, or powerful form, or whatever, but wait they only have six things that Voldemort put pieces of his soul into (you would probably have to use something other than Nagini but that’s fine we can just have Dumbledore be wrong about her and have Harry be mad at him for that instead of this whole Grindewald business), so what is the seventh one? The hunt for known horcruxes begins as they try to figure out along the way what the final one is and over time Harry comes to realize that Voldemort went to kill the one who was prophesized to be his equal. What better way to prove his power and might then to make his final horcrux out of the murder of the one destined to defeat him? And what if he accidentally succeeded? Now Harry knows the truth in order to defeat Voldemort he must die. Is he willing to do that? Does he look for any other way in vain? I don’t know, but I do know that I find this a hundred times more interesting to think about than reading that Harry will go to his death because Dumbledore told him to.