Dumbledore's master plan

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138364

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
>  
> I have to wonder if JKR wrote the part about murder damaging
> the soul as carefully as she wrote the prophecy, deliberately
> inserting the adverb "unjustifiably." Though it's not really a  big
> revelation, given the Aurors use Unforgivable curses justifiably
> to defeat Death Eaters, and presumably their souls are safe.
>  
> Julie 
> 


Valky:
I personally wouldn't go for describing it: "as carefully worded" as
the prophecy, but I can see some inkling that unjustifiably could be
added in a shorthand sense, as a minor disclaimer of things that are
perhaps planned, (or that she wants careful readers to believe she
planned ;D)for the series. In that sense, if it is a shorthand, then
any clause under which a sacrifice of characters can operate will be
detiled and expounded in the seventh book, but it couldn't very well
build tangentially to some basis that has been established in the
previous books. I think it's getting too late in the story for that,
whatever it is will (presumably) have very firm roots in the
previously established authority of the story. 

In specific terms, the use of unforgivables by Aurors is ,yes, a
precedent that might make such a clause *less* startling, but I don't
know that it could excuse Snape, mostly on the basis that the
narrative in GOF where this matter is being discused tends slightly to
be disapproving of the notion. I got the sense that the authoritative
voice was definitely leaning toward condemnation of such an idea. So I
doubt that it could be built on as a basis for letting Sevvie off the
hook. 

That said, however, I think the basis of self-sacrifice, Dumbledore's
greater plan for defeating Voldemort and the choices between right and
easy, cover enough ground for building upon in the positive direction
for Snape. I see no *absolute* dissapproval in canon of the
possibilities rooted in these themes. I do believe that there is a
clause to "murder" in the Potterverse, it's not yet explained but it
has fertile ground to spring from, IMHO.

Valky