lullabyknell:

I know some people might not agree with the directions I’ve gone in the latest chapter of FDitH, according to some of my headcanons for The Deathly Hallows, but honestly… though Chapter 34: “The Forest Again” reads as extremely heartfelt and brave and tragic, I think it’s also one of the creepiest chapters in the book series. Not only is Harry interacting with these (might-be-real-might-not-be) shades of his lost loved ones (who aren’t protesting his sacrifice at all, after doing so much for him to live), but the way Harry is thinking as he walks to his death is freaky as all heck and it sets off alarms in my head. 

Even if Harry would have decided to sacrifice his life for everyone without that massive pile of manipulation (because he probably would have, out of love and with his saving people thing), even if there was nothing magically manipulative about the memories Snape gave him (which is up to interpretation, I think), the manipulation is there in simply how Dumbledore has (through Snape) set up and framed everything (and nurtured Harry’s saving people thing). The manipulation is dripping off the pages of that chapter and it breaks my damn heart.