Harry sparing V'mort

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 46419

In the first place, I do _not_ think for one second that for Harry to kill
Voldemort would make him as bad as Voldemort!  Just think about it for a
second.  Voldemort killed and harmed many, many people, a large number of
whom he had nothing rational against, no real reason to hate, and could have
spared perfectly easily.  Harry, on the other hand, has excellent reasons to
hate and fear Lord Voldemort---or doesn't killing Harry's parents and
dooming him to growing up chez Dursley qualify?  (If not, I'd honestly
appreciate hearing about just what _would!_)  Unlike Voldemort, Harry is
quite gentle and compassionate (his behavior, again and again, whether to
the other kidnappees in the second Triwizard task, Buckbeak, Hagrid, or
others, shows this clearly) and, were it not for Voldemort, would certainly
never kill anyone.

Harry killing V'mort would be more along the lines of killing a mad dog than
an actual murder.  V'mort has demonstrated, again and again, that when given
a choice to be or not be evil, that he will always choose evil.  Like Alex,
the "hero" of _A Clockwork Orange,_ he "goes to the other shop."  He didn't
_need_ to kill Cedric Diggory---or Frank Bryce, the old Muggle caretaker of
the Riddle House, or a lot of the other people he's killed.  A wizard of his
skill and talent could have Memory Charmed Frank Bryce, and Imperiused or
Petrified Cedric perfectly easily.  Even "talentless" Wormtail could have
handled those jobs easily enough, had he been allowed to by V'mort.

As long as V'mort lives, he is a terrible threat to the Wizard and Muggle
worlds alike.  Since he's stated for the record that the Dementors will join
him, even Azkaban would probably not be enough to hold him.  I don't think
he can be safely shorn of his powers, and he's demonstrated incredible grit
and determination to come back after HP defeated him so decisively once
before.  Killing him, or something equivalent (remember Hagrid's statement
that V'mort "didn't have enough human left in him to die?"  Maybe a Dementor
snog-fest is what's called for here?) is the only way to deal with him, and
remove an incorrigible, sociopathic serial murderer who happens to have
incredible power from society.

And, in the second place, it _isn't_ the worst thing they could do.  If they
_could_ strip V'mort of his powers, they could give him to Filch as an
assistant and understudy.  Or send him to live with the Dursleys...