Harry...a murderer

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., mellienel2 at y... wrote:

> My main problem with this is not that he did it, but how the rest
> of the movie treated it.
> 
> In the book, he only thinks he is blistering Quirrel - JUST keeping 
> him off him. He didn't know that he would die should Voldemort be 
> forced from him, he's told later by Dumbledore.
> 
> But in the movie he watches Quirrell's hands break away. He looks
> at his own hands. He has the moment where he realizes what will 
> happen when he touches Quirrell with his hands. And he decides to 
> do it. He knows he is going to kill him.

I might just be stupid, but I didn't see Harry realizing what would 
happen. I only saw him realizing that he somehow had a weapon of 
self- (and stone-) defense. I'm glad we saw Quirrell crumble into 
bits: leaving him alive was a loose end. I wish Harry had made the 
book speech about how bad if Voldemort regained power, that would 
make it clearer why he was so desperate to save the stone. I was a 
little shocked that he was So Tempted by V's seductions (which 
reminded me instantly of Barb's fic HP&ToGI). 
 
> And afterwards he's right back to the same old Harry...it does 
> nothing to suggest that he's different having actively killed 
> someone

Yes, he should have said something to Dumbledore about what happened 
to Professor Quirrell, and Dumbledore says He has died, and Harry 
gets weepy about I didn;t mean to kill him, and Dumbledore tells him 
it wasn't him, it was Voldemort.