his response to actual textual evidence by posters is even more stupid:
"Nothing of the previous posts prove anything about Harry ever chosing himself to die at all in the Forest - it all proves the contrary, in fact. He doesn't accept his death himself, Lirene, he accepts that that is the plan which, according to DD, has to be fulfilled. He blindly accepts the plan, not his death, and even less was he choosing it, but merely executing a plan which happened to involve his death. "The Forest Again"-Chapter is all about feelings towards his death (which he had already accepted ever since hearing about it merely because DD told him to do it - there's no sequence about having any reflection at all about his being supposed to die, which he accepts just like that, without the tiniest hesitation - and I don't need explicit sentences for things like that to be conveyed, but there isn't anything else neither), not about questioning whether or not he's gonna do it in the first place, and then choosing (=which would be a genuin [sic] choice then) to do it himself. And he hasn't gone through any inner death-preparation-development either throughout the series, because he has already in essentials been like that in book one, not wanting the Stone which makes you live (which is metaphorically very telling). In fact, he couldn't even have made a choice to die at all, because he was never drawn to life in the first place, he was always like that - like already dead - and it is therefore no achievement for him to die when he had already jumped into being never having cared about death at all, in the first place.
But I accept that we disagree on all that stuff." |