Hasn't Harry basically signed up to be a Dark Lord in 85, at least by the Sorting Hat's standards?
then the gloves come off and the villains die as fast as possible; and I won't pretend that real people in real life can go through a war without sacrificing anyone...
Compare the talk with the Sorting Hat:
I am not Dark Lord material!
“Yes, you are. You really, really are.”
Why! Just because I once thought it would be cool to have a legion of brainwashed followers chanting ‘Hail the Dark Lord Harry’?
“Amusing, but that was not your first fleeting thought before you substituted something safer, less damaging. No, what you remembered was how you considered lining up all the blood purists and guillotining them.
Hasn't Harry basically signed up to be a Dark Lord in 85, at least by the Sorting Hat's standards?
He chose that life in chapter 10.
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