How's Harry going to learn the curses?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 87268


> Jazmyn writes:
> > Harry should NEVER learn those curses. They are illegal and 
called
> > 'Unforgivables' for a reason. He can find some other way to kill
> > Voldemort then breaking the law to do it. IMO, Harry should NOT 
ever
> > have to kill anyone. He is JUST A KID---

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Those are admirable sentiments, and ones I wish exist in the real 
world, but the WW is at war, and in the real world it is kids, 
people mostly between the ages of seventeen and twenty five, who do 
the fighting and the dying and the killing in wars, not the grown up 
leaders or gernerals. I'm guessing that Lily and James Potter being 
so young when they were killed was not an anomaly. There are 
probably going to be more young kids dying, and even fighting. It's 
a sad fact, but one we have to live with. I don't want Harry to have 
to kill, but in a war, how is someone of his age and stature 
(relating to the prophecy of course) supposed to avoid it? JKR makes 
a point of making her fantasy world very realistic, and after all, 
it's boys a few years older than Harry's age that get shipped to the 
front in real world war. 
Meri - apologozing for the morbid subject matter.