Bang! You're Dead. (was:Voldemorts animus...)
artcase
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Thu Nov 27 02:04:27 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 85938
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Martha"
<fakeplastikcynic at h...> wrote:
snip, snip, the scissors go again...
> ...I'm inclined to think that defeat will come through
> something unexpected, and is more likely to involve one of those
> things worse than death that Dumbledore refers to than death
itself,
> and that this is likely to be a thing-worse-than-death that's
> personal to Voldemort. What this is likely to be I have no idea,
but
> I don't think it's having your entrails Accio'd (not matter how
cool
> the phrase "Accio entrails!" is.) :-)
Art:
ROTFLMHO..accio entrails....But seriously, the real reason I wanted
to reply was because this next part...
Martha wrote:
... I don't think he'll learn to be a nasty, mean person so he can
effectively throw AK or the Cruciatus curse. I think when it comes
down to it he'll win because he's good and he's not evil. What would
be the point if Harry won, but in doing so had more or less become
Voldemort? To go off on a tangent, one of the moments in OoP that
really grabbed me was when Harry is kicking off in Dumbledore's
office, and he shouts, "I don't want to be human!" (no books handy,
apologies). At the end of the day, Tom Riddle chose not to be human,
and I'm hoping Harry will choose to carry on being human.
Art:
This is precisely why the series is important and potentially
effective. The real question is: How does a moral person commit an
immoral act(murder)?
Soldiers deal with this question. Victims of crimes who fight back
deal with this question.
There are (according to Plato) violent and involuntary homicides.
Involuntary homicides can be defined as accidental death.
On the other side of the coin there are the violent homicides.
According to Western law homicide is not murder when it is in
defence of one's own body or in defense of another person in
response to an initiation of force.
In other words, Harry cannot morally go looking for a fight. He
must "kill" Voldemort during a battle that Voldemort initiates.
Another quick note: Harry, in response to the prophecy, regards the
killing of Voldemort as "murder." There is no grey to his view. That
is a point that I believe lies at the heart of this adventure,
the "greying" of the rules that come with growing up. OR Harry is
already "premeditating" his murder of Voldemort. In that case, maybe
he shouldn't live past the end of the series....
Art.
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