[HPforGrownups] Dirty on Dumbledore & who will Harry confide in?

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 85523



> Does anyone else think that it was strange that Dumbledore just lets
> Harry leave his office thinking his only fate is to be murdered or be
> the murderer?  He doesn't even offer any help!  What kind of way is
> that to treat someone?  Especially someone you profess to love?

The thing is, I can't see why Harry, or anybody else, thinks that for Harry
to kill Voldemort would constitute murder.  Given V's track record of murder
attempts on Harry, even if Harry snuck up behind him and AK'd him to a
crackly crunch, I doubt that any court in the Muggle world (not to mention
the WW) would even consider charging Harry.

As long as he lives, or exists, Voldemort is a standing danger to everybody,
Wizard or Muggle.  Killing him would be more like an execution than anything
else---or putting down a mad dog.  He's killed and killed and killed again,
without (in most cases) any shred of provocation.  He is a known threat to
everybody, particularly those who oppose him (which includes most of Harry's
pureblood wizard friends) and Muggle-born witches and wizards (most of
Harry's other friends, including especially one Hermione Granger); he's
apparently involved in some sort of plot to take over Britain (doesn't this
count as High Treason?) or at least its wizarding component; he's "broken
every human law; he'd break the law of gravity," to borrow from TS Eliot.

Frankly, in Harry's situation, even at his age, I'd have no more considered
killing V-mort to be murder than I would be likely to flap my arms and fly.
Harry may think that it's murder.  Maybe this makes him a nicer person than
I am.  That's perfectly possible---almost anybody this side of Lord V. is a
nicer person than I am.  Or it may make him the biggest prat in the Wizard
World.

I wonder what Tonks, or Mad-Eye Moody, or some adult he respects and trusts
(short list, that) would say about this situation?  I somehow "hae me doots"
that any Auror would consider it murder to kill Lord "Thingy," and about the
only other WW adults he knows are his teachers...and the senior Weasleys.
It might be a very interesting scene in the next book, when Harry has to
talk to _someone,_ and ends up confiding in the closest thing he has to a
real mother: Molly Weasley.  I think Molly might be just the person to get
his head on straight.

"You want to get Voldemort?  I'll tell you how to get Voldemort!  Whatever
he does, you do it back to him twice as bad!  He casts 'Crucio,' you cast
'Avada Kedavra!'  He puts one of your friends into St. Mungo's---you put one
of his Death Eaters _in the ground!_  That's the Hogwarts way---and that's
how you're going to get Voldemort!"  --a .sig file I liked