Deathly Hallows, Chapter 34: The Forest Again
This is where things become really weird. Harry realizes he’s supposed to die, and his reactions are completely unnatural: He jumps over grief stages 1-4 (denial, anger, bargaining, and depression) and goes straight to acceptance. “Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive. His job was to walk calmly into Death’s welcoming arms ( Read more... )
Not only that, he has no reaction after finding out that Snape - the man that he’s hated for years - was in love with his mother. No shock, no disgust, no horror, nothing. I mean, yes, that fact is trivial compared with the knowledge that Dumbledore set him up to die, but he doesn’t react normally to that either!
/the job that ought to have been done in Godric’s Hollow would be finished....”/
“Ought to have been done.” So, Voldemort should have killed you?
/Yet he didn’t see fit to inform an intelligent, accomplished, battle-hardened grown man with an expertise in Dark Magic about this subject./
Or any other adults. Is there any reason why the Order of the Phoenix couldn’t have carried on the task of destroying Horcruxes along with Ron and Hermione?
/On the way, he runs into Neville and tells him about killing Nagini. “This was crucial, he must be like Dumbledore....”/
Actually, no, Harry, you’re not acting like Dumbledore, because you’re telling Neville what he needs to know and you’re doing so in a very plain and straightforward manner. If you really were like Dumbledore right now, you would have told Neville nothing at all or would have given him tantalizingly vague hints about what to do.
/He created Lord Voldemort by letting a disturbed and dangerous child into Hogwarts, telling no one of the danger he represented, covering up the murder he committed as a student (ruining an innocent boy’s life and gaining Dumbledore a slave in the process), and continuing to cover for him for half a century afterwards./
And we never learn why. Maybe it would make more sense if he had a personal connection to Tom, but he doesn’t! We never get an explanation other than, “Dumbledore tries to see the best in people.”
/I’ve read plenty of fan fictions in which Voldemort is killed and the Horcruces destroyed without all this bloodshed./
And I’ve read fanfictions where he isn’t killed at all. Instead, his magic is removed and he is locked up in prison.
/It’s also possible Harry only saw those people who would encourage him to let Voldemort kill him. Dobby, Fred, Hedwig, Snape (in particular, assuming he’s really dead) and possibly Tonks and Moody would tell Harry to stay alive, that he deserved a long, full life./
But why would Lily and James want Harry to die? They sacrificed themselves so that he could *live.* As Dan Hemmens said in his reviews of DH, did Lily really throw herself in front of the Killing Curse just so that Harry could face another one years later?
/what’s the purpose of remembering her “blazing look”?/
Or comparing her to Bellatrix?
/It might be even better if Voldy possessed Ginny’s body and pretended to be her, to “pass” as normal./
And thus was forced to give Harry “firewhisky kisses,” etc. in order to maintain the charade? Ha, I could see a Voldemort/Harry shipper write a story like that. XD
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LOL, so true.
Harry only sees what he wants to see when it comes to Dumbledore.
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