House elves and WW ethics

[guardianapcelt]

No: HPFGUIDX 58222

   Andrea wrote: 
> Actually, no.  In other words, it is illegal to kill someone with 
Avada
> Kedavra.  There are still plenty of other ways someone could be 
killed;
> it's only that one spell that is outlawed.  And incidentally, 
during the
> 1st Voldie War and its aftermath, Aurors *were* authorized to use 
the
> Unforgivables.  So just like in the Muggle world, the WW considers 
it
> illegal to kill...except in certain circumstances and with certain 
spells.


Me:
     Okay, I realize that there is nothing in canon whatsoever to 
back me up here, but...I'm going to push ahead and insist (forgive 
me, I'm stubborn) that it is illegal to kill someone *with magic* in 
the WW (except under rare circumstances...Crouch had basically 
imposed martial law on the WW). Crouch-As-Moody mentioned illegal 
curses, the three worst of which were the Unforgiveables. The results 
of the Unforgiveables, as you know, are control, torture, and murder. 
This implies that there are a fair amount of outlawed curses, but 
only the three that produce those results are labeled Unforgiveable.  
If there were other spells that accomplished these same things, would 
they not be in the same place as the others? If the result of the 
Spiggly Spoof spell was the same as that of Avada Kedarva, would it 
not be Unforgiveable as well, and would it not have been mentioned?
                       Joe S.