[HPforGrownups] Re: Bang! You're Dead.

[Robert Shaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 86029

Kathryn Cawte wrote:

> I also agree that from a plot pov Voldemort really needs
> to end up dead to tie up all loose ends (especially if JKR seriously
> wants to resist writing any more stories). And I don't want him to
> fight a fair duel (for one thing a duel would be awkward with the
> brother wands) but he could stun him while he was asleep, hand him
> over to the Ministry and then frankly it's their problem as to how
> the legal system wants to deal with him. 

And if Voldemort should escape, Harry gets to feel guilty about
all the resulting deaths, even though those deaths wouldn't really
be his fault.

> 
> For Harry to kill someone unnecessarily 

Care to define necessary?
There are many possible shades of opinion available.

You'd seem to agree that killing Voldemort is necessary so,
if Harry is indeed the only the only one who can kill him, his
killing Voldemort becomes necessary.

> would make him as bad as any
> of the Death Eaters in my book.

Not in mine. 
The key differences are that Harry would know he had
done wrong, that he would always regret the necessity, and
that he would not let it set a precedent for his future actions.

Choosing the lesser evil is tolerable, if you don't start
pretending it wasn't really evil but rather resolve to do
better the next time.

-- 
Robert