[HPforGrownups] Re: Bang! You're Dead. (was:Voldemorts animus...)

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 85949

 ~Kate
> Whatever the outcome, I do not believe that Voldemort's death is
> murder.  I don't hear anyone calling the deaths of Hitler or Saddam
> Hussein's sons murder...but that is another issue.  Whether Harry is
> premeditating the death of Voldemort or not does not in any way
> change what I think of his morals, nor do I think that Harry cares
> too much what "Western law" says he morally can or can not do in this
> case.  Harry has been chosen to be the executioner or the executed.
> I think that the choice on his part is easy enough, whether Voldemort
> starts the fight or not.

K

Regardless of what the law says Harry can't kill Voldemort unless it's in a
fight of some kind. Harry doesn't have the right to decide that Voldemort
deserves to die, regardless of what Voldemort has done in the past. (And btw
Hitler committed suicide. If Saddam's sons were killed when they were
unarmed then yes they were murdered, if they were resisting, then since
America was at war it's somewhat justified). Ideally Harry should be able to
bring Voldemort to justice somehow but the prophecy seems to make that
unlikely. JKR seems to try and teach certain moral lessons in her books, I
doubt she would undermine that by making her last point that killing is
wrong, except when you decide someone deserves it. Voldemort has done Harry
great harm in the past but that doesn't put Harry above any legal or moral
considerations. He has no right to become judge, jury and executioner.

K