Harry sparing V?Mort

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 46500

Pip wrote:
> It didn't even *occur* to Harry to try Avada Kedavra in the
> Graveyard duel (Chapter 34 of GoF) ? not even a momentary thought
> that he wasn't powerful enough to try it. The whole thrust of the
> books to date would be against Harry choosing to kill Voldemort, or
> turning him over to the MoM to be executed.


Really, I was not surprised that Harry did not even consider using the
AK.  He is a very obedient child (pushing aside his sneaking out of
his tower).  If he is not supposed to use a spell, especially a doomed
spell, he wouldn't.  He did not use AK in the graveyard, because he
did not want the consequences.  As also in the shrieking shack, he did
not want Sirius and Lupin to suffer the consequences.  In Harry's
mind, even justified death AK's are not justified.

Harry agrees that Voldemort and Peter do deserve dementor's kiss.  He
said so about Peter by association when Harry talked to Lupin about
the MoM authorizing the kiss on Black (PoA, Ch12).  Harry was angry
because Black (Peter) caused so much pain to his family and assisted
in killing his parents.

Now with Voldemort, Harry's anger toward Voldemort is growing beyond
just the death of his parents.  After the Pensive viewing, Harry is
laying in bed stewing over what he learned (GoF, Ch31).  This is the
first time we see Harry rallying up his anger against Voldemort.  Kind
of like Harry did when he was looking at the wedding pictures of Black
in PoA.  So in GoF, Harry is laying there remembering all the faces of
the people in the pensive Voldemort had crippled (Neville's parents),
splintered (Neville), or persuaded to his side and thus destroyed
(Barty Jr.).

After that scene, I felt Harry had finally justified in his mind what
evil truly is and how he should do everything to be against it.  Given
that this anger about Voldemort is so similar to Harry's anger about
the betrayer of his parents, then I say that Harry is quite at peace
about a dementor's kiss for Voldemort, and by Harry's viewpoint that
kiss is worse than death.

But this discussion is about whether *Harry* would kill Voldemort.  I
guess I agree with the arguments put forth so far.  Harry would in
forced self-defense if he had too, but otherwise, he will bring him in
because he should not kill.

Oh, gracious, I don't know.  Part of me sees this as a hero slays the
dragon, but the other part sees the humanity of the series.

Curse JKR for painting such a blurry fortune to date.  Makes
theorizing so blooming difficult...not that I am terribly discouraged.


Pip theorized:
> So, I would guess that if Voldemort does die at the end of the
> books, it will *not* be because Harry deliberately kills him. He may
> well end up like Lockhart, though.
>
> Impaled upon his own sword.

That does seem the best solution.  Evil killing evil.  How fitting.


Melody
wondering what would happen if Voldemort did come back as a ghost.
Who would that state torment more?
Voldemort the ghost or WW the living?