(And how bizarre that the Ravenclaw and Slytherin ghost mascots were a murder/suicide pair? No hope for those houses, apparently.)
Once again, a Slytherin who's not so bad turned out to have been distinguished by a laser like focus affection on one specific person whom he desired. And killed. Um, yay.
There wasn't a sense at all that in sacrificing himself Harry might screw everything up. It was just, if I die we win, so I'll go die now. It was frankly, hard for me to read as all that sacrifical in the end. Especially as Harry was surrounded by all his beloved dead as he headed off to be killed.
Exactly! It reminded me of the Lily stuff again, where so many of us couldn't figure out why it was in any way unique that Lily would put herself in front of her baby--wouldn't any mother do that? Why is Harry wondering if Neville's would? And here again, Harry's choice actually seems like one that most people (erm, non-Slytherin people) would make.
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Date: 2007-07-22 05:35 pm (UTC)Once again, a Slytherin who's not so bad turned out to have been distinguished by a laser like focus affection on one specific person whom he desired. And killed. Um, yay.
There wasn't a sense at all that in sacrificing himself Harry might screw everything up. It was just, if I die we win, so I'll go die now. It was frankly, hard for me to read as all that sacrifical in the end. Especially as Harry was surrounded by all his beloved dead as he headed off to be killed.
Exactly! It reminded me of the Lily stuff again, where so many of us couldn't figure out why it was in any way unique that Lily would put herself in front of her baby--wouldn't any mother do that? Why is Harry wondering if Neville's would? And here again, Harry's choice actually seems like one that most people (erm, non-Slytherin people) would make.