killerbeasts, patronus, 1st series of attacks, morality

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 46897

Grey Wolf:

>>I have from time to time heard of animals which will attack for 
"the pure pleasure of the hunt" (for example, velocirraptors in 
Jurasic Park), but I have never actually seen such animal in real 
life, nor (I think) have ever heard of such species. Maybe 
someone can enlighten me here. <<

There are at least two: cats...and humans.

Eva asked:
>>What kind of Patronus would Ron, 
Hermione and Ginny have? 

Personally I see Hermione with a Kneazle, Ginny with a Pegasus 
and Ron I don't know?<<

That's easy. Ron's patronus is a giant, bouncing ferret <g>


Jodel said:
>>Possibly, Myrtle was the ONLY one to go. We've heard nothing 
about any series of petrifications 50 years ago<<

>From Riddle's chapter 13 conversation with Dippet
"all these attacks," "source of all this unpleasantness," "if it all 
stopped," "these attacks"and his conversation with Hagrid, 
"these attacks."


Grey Wolf again:

 >> Dumbledore needs Voldemort to be mortal so it can be 
destroyed (or redeemed, or whatever), and has guided 
Voldemort into using a potion that is flawed. This method has 
caused accidental deaths, and this is what the attack used to 
say that Dumbledore is respoinsible for Voldemort's actions. 
The fact that, left to his own devices, Voldemort would've killed 
many more people has been ignored by the oposition (IIRC, the 
last time that point was debated, I proposed a simple moral 
problem: if you are faced with a building in flames, and you can 
only save a room with eight people, or one with two, what would 
you do?<<

Eh? That is not a moral problem, Grey Wolf, it is a logistical one.
If I were Dumbledore, I would use a simple flame-freezing charm  
and save them all. Since I'm not, I would of course save the eight 
people, but that is not the most virtuous solution, it is only the 
most efficient one.

One might consider efficiency a virtue in itself. Vernon Dursley 
surely does, but Dumbledore? I can't think of any time when 
Dumbledore did something or recommended a course of action 
because it would be efficient. Can you?

Pippin