[spoilers] Lucas Discussion 2

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(07-03-2011 06:05 AM)xRuthx Wrote:  Also, the line from Harry in 9.7 about "Betrayal is a cancer... let it eat your soul... not mine" irritated me so much in the context of Lucas having spent eight years in a Russian prison keeping silent and loyal on MI5 and by extension Harry's behalf. I mean why did you bother getting Lucas out of prison at all if you weren't even going to try to contain the situation and be such a hypocrite instead! I don't know. Maybe it's just me but that bit annoyed me so much.

Definitely not just you. I'm really not sure what the writing was about on this line. I understand the extent to which an element of it is Harry's cry of frustration that, yet again, he feels himself to be a sort of totem-of-virtue in a landscape of compromise and deceit: a perception he knows to be uneven , but one which he is required to maintain for the sake of his own sanity and moral function. Unfortunately, and almost certainly unintentionally, the resulting tone on this occasion is more one of sanctimony. It's a betrayal of Lucas and Harry.