The Killing Curse

[arcturusfelire]

No: HPFGUIDX 77177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
<valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arcturusfelire" 
> <carlpelleg at a...> wrote:
> > I have been a member of this group for a while now but I haven't 
> had any questiones or any thoughts to add. Well now I do.

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> Valky replies:
> I always relate the matter of killing to a story I was told about 
my 
> Grandfather when I was younger. 
> He was a sharp shooter by trade he performed it for entertainment 
and 
> travelled the world with his wife and daughter (my mother) 
performing 
> skill shots with rifles and bow and arrow.
> Being so skilled with a rifle he was also valuable to the English 
> army during his years of service in the Second World war. He served 
> as a sniper. He did this for a long time and one could imagine what 
> kind of shooting he was required to do. 
> He left service discharged honourably not long before the war 
ended. 
> The story he brought back with him about killing people is 
harrowing. 
> I was told that for him the most profound feeling that he had after 
> sniping someone was the feeling of having taken something from 
them. 
> If you take someone's possession from them you may feel some 
remorse 
> and want to return it to them, he said the thing about taking a 
life 
> is that you can't give it back. For my Grandfather it was a 
> revelation of his authority and control in the world. It humbled 
him 
> and he would say that is the realisation of the authority of man. 
> Knowing this is how we know the difference between us and the 
divine 
> and he said it made him realise that as a man he had no authority 
to 
> give someone back life and so no authority to take one from anyone. 
> 
> For me the unforgivable nature of a killing curse is explained in 
> this story. Hence and answer to any use of it as a death penalty 
for 
> crime. But not an answer to your question about euthanasia. 
> Not so sure about that one.

Hi Valky

On a personal level that is so true. It is also something that is 
very heart warming to hear. But I must say it doesn't apply directly 
to society. Without insult (cause what you said is something that is 
needed to be rememberd) a number of nations within this world have 
the death penalty (I know the United States does, where I live) so in 
some cases its not illegal (or unforgivable) to kill.

Not to mention if Harry used the Killing Curse on Voldemort do think 
that action is unforgivable. I do not thing so.

Anyway, thankyou for your post. It is something I will remember as in 
real life it is something to think about.

CarlPelleg