Harry's revenge on Snape?

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 90558

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <snip>
 But there's another point that concerns me (already discussed at
> length on this list more than once): The only killing spell that 
Harry
> knows is an Unforgiveable Curse that requires either intense hatred 
or
> a cold indifference to murder to make it work. Either use will 
corrupt
> the soul. Tom Riddle, having committed one murder using a basilisk,
> coolly murdered his father and grandparents using Avada Kedavra and 
in
> so doing placed himself beyond redemption at the age of seventeen.
> Harry, IMO, must not learn to use the Unforgiveable Curses, which 
are
> the weapons of the enemy. They are not only illegal (unless the
> Ministry of Magic gives him special permission to use them and that
> seems most unlikely), they are Unforgiveable. They require the user 
to
> be indifferent to (or to desire) the death, pain, or loss of will of
> the victim, and that is not a direction I want to see Harry go.
> 
> More Snipping>
 There is--there must be--another way, which neither Harry nor the
> reader sees. But if JKR allows Harry to use an Unforgiveable Curse 
on
> anyone (not counting the failed Crucio on Bellatrix which should be 
a
> mistake that he learns from), I will feel that JKR has betrayed me 
by
> failing to maintain her own distinction between good and evil.
> 
> Carol

I absolutely agree that there must be another way.  We have learned, 
more than once, that Harry needs to talk to people before he makes 
grand decisions about what he "must" do.  As with his detentions with 
Umbridge, he will eventually confide in those closest to him and, I 
am sure, find out there is more than one way to eliminate Voldemort.  

I wonder how Dumbledore destroyed Grindywald?  They never called DD a 
murderer, at least on his Chocolate Frog card.  I am also sure that 
Moody caused the death of more than one DE and we know from what 
others have said about him that he never used the Unforgivables.

My thoughts,
Sue