Harry: I, like, can’t believe I decided not to race You-Know-Who to the Elder Wand! This might well be the first time-this book-that I didn’t act on a lead at once!
Headdesk. This book omg.
Lupin: Well, you see, Tonks just had a baby, and we decided to name him Ted, after her father, and also make Harry his godfather. That way if we die horribly at some point in the near future we’ll at least know that his godfather will live on to take care of him.
Harry: Hey, you don’t know that I’ll still be alive at the end of this series!
Lupin: Well, we figured the odds were most in your favor out of any cast members.
Maybe Lupin got hold of the previous books and realized that Harry's name is on them, heh?
Though Dumbledore the Exposition Chief would have been a close second.
(Pay no attention to the time when he wasn't studying for 2nd Task, and most damningly NOT EMPTYING YOUR F@&KING MIND BEFORE SLEEP IN YEAR 5. If Voldemort had actual supervillain smarts like, say, Lex Luthor, he'd try to remote-control Harry's brain so that it fries himself and he'd be a vegetable and much easier to kill, cuz he'd just have to take out the Guard and Harry would most definitely not be defending himself. V could capture Harry and put him in a jar in his room, even if he's wary of AKing him again and had to go down the Elder Wand route, because then at least Harry won't be actively destroying *him*.)
The difference was that Harry in this case made an active choice to be passive, instead of just being passively passive. I’m not just being snarky here. There is a difference between knowing you ought to do something now and not getting around to it, and knowing there is something to be done now and deciding, now, not to do it because doing it is not the best course of action. I have to give Harry points for gathering information and making a decisive choice, instead of just muddling through on emotion and luck the way he usually does.
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Harry: I, like, can’t believe I decided not to race You-Know-Who to the Elder Wand! This might well be the first time-this book-that I didn’t act on a lead at once!
Headdesk. This book omg.
Lupin: Well, you see, Tonks just had a baby, and we decided to name him Ted, after her father, and also make Harry his godfather. That way if we die horribly at some point in the near future we’ll at least know that his godfather will live on to take care of him.
Harry: Hey, you don’t know that I’ll still be alive at the end of this series!
Lupin: Well, we figured the odds were most in your favor out of any cast members.
Maybe Lupin got hold of the previous books and realized that Harry's name is on them, heh?
Though Dumbledore the Exposition Chief would have been a close second.
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Yeah, right, whatever you say.
(Pay no attention to the time when he wasn't studying for 2nd Task, and most damningly NOT EMPTYING YOUR F@&KING MIND BEFORE SLEEP IN YEAR 5. If Voldemort had actual supervillain smarts like, say, Lex Luthor, he'd try to remote-control Harry's brain so that it fries himself and he'd be a vegetable and much easier to kill, cuz he'd just have to take out the Guard and Harry would most definitely not be defending himself. V could capture Harry and put him in a jar in his room, even if he's wary of AKing him again and had to go down the Elder Wand route, because then at least Harry won't be actively destroying *him*.)
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