wthispattysimcox replied to your post: The thing about Harry dying to protect everyone...
Same, esp bc lily dying for her baby involves an amount of personal love Harry isnât gonna have for everyone there??
Like that could have been the thing, where you love a community so much it doesnât matter that thereâs people you donât like or donât know in it, but HP doesnât seem to be that trope at all
Yeah. Thereâs also the element of, Lily honestly did have a chance to live (Riddle might have changed his mind later, but in the moment, he meant it thanks to promising Snape) whereas Harry was given the option to turn himself in and theoretically save Hogwarts...but he didnât have a chance to live. Riddle was always going to keep coming after him. Taking a lull in battle to run away is not the same thing as accepting an offer to be spared. Harry sacrificed himself, but in a different way than his mom did.
Harry pretty much trash-talked Voldemort to death and thatâs awesome.













