Elf Beheading?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 102342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Macbeth" 
<ladymacbeth at l...> wrote:
> Tiggersong wrote:
> Sure, it's taking a life.  But wouldn't it also be a kindness?  
Kreacher's
> *not* happy at all.  Wouldn't it be kinder to him to ... put him 
out of his
> misery?
> 
> Lady Macbeth wrote:
> Personally, I agree with you.  However, there are many who would 
not, and I
> am certain that Jo is one of them.  In writing OotP, she made a 
very vivid
> point about what Harry and Co. thought of the elf heads on the 
wall.  That
> suggests that it's also how she (as the writer) feels.  Yes, it 
WOULD be the
> humane thing for him.  But, we also live in a society that believes 
the
> "humane" thing to do is to let terminal patients wither away under 
chemicals
> and cancer, or stay a living vegetable that can't act or react to 
anyone
> around them, or live off of a machine that they would die in two 
minutes
> without.  There are even some people who are that way with pets - 
my husband
> is one of them.  

snip.


Alla:


If I knew that Kreacher did not want to die, I would most definitely 
support his beheading for his betrayal of Sirius. ( No, I DO NOT 
support death penalty in real life, in fact I am strongly against 
it. :o))

Die, Kreacher, die. :) But as I said I think it will be too easy for 
him.