What would you think if.....

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rgbmcl" <rgbmcl at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> (I emphatically don't want him
> > to use Avada Kedavra or any other Unforgiveable Curse. I do want him
> > to use his wits and his courage and to survive.)
> 
> I disagree.  I think having Harry use the avada kedavra curse to kill 
> LV may well be the only way JKR can give due gravity to the fact that 
> Harry must commit murder.  Then, even if he lives, he has to live 
> with another 'scar' -- that the same curse that wrecked his life in 
> the first place is the one that set it right again.  I'll be 
> disappointed if the whole series just ends in a 'happily ever 
> after'.  What LV did can't be undone; you can't just magically erase 
> it all.  I think in the end, it would make Harry a far more complex 
> hero.


The suggestion that Harry must commit murder or be murdered is Harry's
own interpretation of the prophecy, and time and again, Harry has been
wrong in his interpretations and predictions. I think he's wrong again
this time. As for the Unforgiveable Curses, they're unforgiveable for
a reason--they contaminate the soul (and the WW does believe in souls
or the Dementors would be powerless). (I think Tom Riddle placed
himself beyond redemption when he used them on his father and
grandparents.) If it's absolutely necessary to kill, it can be done
without using unforgiveable curses or other Dark methods such as
poison or even more Muggle-like methods. Stabbing LV with Godric
Gryffindor's sword would still be murder, just as it would have been
murder for Sirius to stab Scabbers/Peter with a twelve-inch knife.
Notice that Harry saves Peter (later) not because he doesn't think
Peter deserves to die but because he doesn't want Sirius and Lupin to
commit murder. I don't think JKR wants Harry to commit murder, either.
There must be some better way, some more noble way, that would enable
him to rid the world of evil's representative without resorting to
evil himself. If he absolutely must kill LV in self-defence, I'll
accept that reluctantly, but not using an unforgiveable curse. (In any
case, LV is virtually immortal now, and I don't think an AK would kill
him.) 

Please, JKR. No murdered hero. No murdering but somehow still noble
hero. Please find a better, more satisfactory, more original way to
get rid of Voldemort.

Carol