Why didn't DD try to kill V'mort (was Questions! Questions! Questions!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 110445

(Laurasia) wrote:

> ..."The only option as to why Dumbledore didn't even *try* to kill 
> Voldemort must be because he knows Voldemort will become *more 
> powerful* "...

Reply:

This is a good point. Sort of like if we chose to do an act of evil 
it adds to the evil in the world and somehow gives it more strength. 
So for a good person like Dumbledore to to a killing curse on 
Voldemort would be playing into Voldemort's hands. ..  doing what he 
wants him to do.. to do an act of evil.  I think the "punishment" 
Dumbledore had in mind was something that Voldemort would have 
really hated.. something like compassion and love..  It is said that 
people in Hell chose to be there, that God does not put them there, 
but that they CHOOSE to be there because they can not stand to be in 
the presence of an all loving God.  So I think that for Voldemort, 
something like that would be the most torturous thing he could face.

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