Elf Beheading?

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 102536

Lady Macbeth, living up to her name, wrote:

> For some, humane is letting a person or creature (or Kreacher) 
suffer on in
> life with the hope that they will some day "get better".  That's 
the route
> that I'm afraid is going to be in store for Kreacher in these 
books - after
> all, even Dumbledore, who's lived so long that he should know 
better,
> wouldn't see Kreacher dead for any reason, even if it were just to 
put him
> out of his misery.

Given that Kreacher is nowhere near the kind of loss of faculties at 
which euthanasia begins to be discussed IRL, what is your canon 
basis for saying that Dumbledore 'should know better'?

Your wording above 'letting a person...' rather connotes a very 
passive approach to Kreacher's rehabilitation - do you rule out all 
possibility of active engagement to get him to at least have a 
happier life, if not develop a finer moral sense?

David