Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Chapter 34 Quotes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Chapter 34 Quotes
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Quote 10
Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear –.
He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone. (34.90-91)
Harry's perseverance is tested here for a moment as he awaits death – it's all he can do to maintain his dignity and hold his ground. However, as we know he will, Harry manages to stay calm in the face of his impending death.
Quote 11
Dumbledore's betrayal was almost nothing. Of course there had been a bigger plan; Harry had simply been too foolish to see it, he realized that now. He had never questioned his own assumption that Dumbledore wanted him alive. Now he saw that his life span had always been determined by how long it took to eliminate all the Horcruxes. (34.6)
The betrayal here stems again from the idea of "For the Greater Good" – Dumbledore seems to have chosen Harry to die, since he had already been chosen to die once, in order to save the rest of the world… he just never informed Harry of this decision. Whoops.
Quote 12
He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent home…
But he was home. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. (34.31-32)
Hogwarts is home to Harry, and there's no other place for him to go. Abandoned and orphaned once, he has come back to the only place he truly knows. And, poetically, he returns to face another orphan whose only real home was this school.