Perhaps that’s Harry’s real motivation (or: Eliezer intends us to understand that it is; or: an actual person who behaved as Eliezer describes Harry behaving would likely have such motivation) but it actually seems more likely to me that it’s ”… and that would risk destabilizing the government, messing up my plans for doing away with serious illness and death, and preventing me from stopping the end of the world wiping out human life as it seems to be prophesied I might be able to do and no one else can”. Which would be a damn good reason, all things considered.
(Of course Draco, and Harry, and we, should consider the possibility that that’s all just rationalization. But given what else we’ve been told in HPMOR it seems like something of the kind is in fact correct.)
Perhaps that’s Harry’s real motivation (or: Eliezer intends us to understand that it is; or: an actual person who behaved as Eliezer describes Harry behaving would likely have such motivation) but it actually seems more likely to me that it’s ”… and that would risk destabilizing the government, messing up my plans for doing away with serious illness and death, and preventing me from stopping the end of the world wiping out human life as it seems to be prophesied I might be able to do and no one else can”. Which would be a damn good reason, all things considered.
(Of course Draco, and Harry, and we, should consider the possibility that that’s all just rationalization. But given what else we’ve been told in HPMOR it seems like something of the kind is in fact correct.)