All the Difference in The World

Well its been ages since my last post, hasnt it? and yet i came back with another post about, well, you know. I'm still kind of obsessed with Harry Potter thingy, and this morning i came across one chapter on Book Six (Horcruxes) that's very tempting to write and discuss. Still, if you're not interested, i'll just discuss it with myself, haha  :D

"But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world."

So this passage talks about Voldemort and Harry's fateful life, which, based on Prof Trelawney's prophecy, must ended with, or involved, murder. "One cannot live while the other survive" > this part of the prophecy states that Harry must be the one to kill Voldemort,  or the other way around, for one cannot live while the other survives. 

The prophecy. It is indeed what made Voldemort tried to kill Baby Harry when he was one year old. And by doing so, Voldemort himself marked Harry as his own main opponent, and even he didn't realized it, he gave Harry a powerful weapon to thwart him. Voldemort had heard the prophecy, and so he singled out the remarkable person who might try to finish him, and even give him the tools to do the job. All his act is driven by the prophecy.

While Harry, even if he'd never heard of the prophecy, he'll still try to have Old Voldy's finished. He does not want him survive, not without all he'd done to Lily and James, to Sirius, to Cedric Diggory. So he'll try his best to kill Voldemort, which means, in the end, one of them is going to ended up killing the other. The difference is, Voldemort wanted to kill Harry because of the prophecy, while Harry is absolutely free to choose his fate, to turn his back at the prophecy. It is the difference between being dragged to the arena of Battle to the Death, and walking to the arena with head held high. 

Hiks. Reading this chapter, i became very aware that Harry IS pure and remarkable and pure at heart and extraordinary. 

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly. "The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stared into a mi-ror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches. Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror? Voldemort should have known then what he was dealing with, but he did not! But he knows it now. You have flitted into Lord Voldemort's mind without damage to yourself, but he cannot possess you without enduring mortal agony, as he discovered in the Ministry. I do not think he understands why, Harry, but then, he was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole."