HP and social issues - Lupin

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28989

Joywitch wrote:

> 
> My own pet theory is that the ending of PoA, where Harry can not 
> bring himself to kill Sirius or later to let Sirius and Remus kill 
> Pettigrew, is JKR's anti-death penalty metaphor.  


I agree, and I'll quickly add that the whole Buckbeak sub-plot is 
another anti-death penalty metaphor.  The whole process is rigged, 
and Hagrid is Buckbeak's lawyer, so Buckbeak was doomed from the 
beginning.

Also, one could argue that the soul sucking of Crouch in GoF is 
another anti-death penalty metaphor, as it is clearly viewed as wrong 
by Dumbledore, etc.  Indeed, Dumbledore's objection is to the 
finality of it, in other words, that Crouch can't give testimony.  
Dumbledore doesn't object to the lack of due process by objecting 
that Crouch didn't get a trial.

Cindy (who thinks soul sucking has to be unreasonable search and 
seizure)