Would DD try to make Harry capable of Unforgivables? (was: Portrait!DD)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 137915

SSSusan:
> Actually, I *don't* think this is something DD would go
> for, as I reflect on it....  I meant pretty much just a            
       > straightforward explanation from portrait!DD as to what 
> Snape did on the Tower and WHY (because DD wanted him to),
> because I > can't really imagine any other way in which 
> Harry might come to an >acceptance that Snape is still on DD's side
> (assuming that's true, of >course ;-)).
  
houyhnhnm:

We have seen Harry slowly grow in insight into other people (his pity
for Draco at the end of HBP, empathy for Luna at the end of OotP). 
Love power, in other words.  I have a feeling that Harry's acceptance
of Snape's loyalty to Dumbledore (if such is the case and I firmly
believe it to be) will turn on that rather than some magical deus ex
machina.  Harry will recognize the similarities between Snape's
experience on the tower and his own in the cave.  I mean there's going
to have to be some other evidence as well, but I think it will be his
own growth in wisdom that will ultimately sway Harry.

SSSusan:

> is, a building up of hatred in order for him to be able to off Voldy 
> via an Unforgivable.

houyhnhnm:

I'd like to see the dementors come into Voldemort's destruction in
some way.  They like to suck out people's souls after all.    

SSSusan:
 
> I know an AK is an AK to many of you.  To me, Snape's was seen as 
> *necessary* by the person upon whom it would be utilized, and that 
> makes it somehow "different."  As for DD actually asking Snape to do 
> something which might tear a bit of Snape's soul, I'm banking on 
> this "different" kind of AK not doing that.

houyhnhnm:

I agree and I don't see any support in the book for the kind of
legalistic morality exemplified by those who think an AK tears your
soul but blasting an old man off a tower with a stunning spell so that
he falls to his death is okay.  This is the way hardliners at the
Ministry of Magic think, but neither Harry nor Dumbledore exhibits
this type of legalistic thinking.  Both are willing to break any
number of rules and even laws in the interest of a higher good.