my greatest fear....

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 121249


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Del wrote:
<SNIP> 

> Carol responds:
> Yes. I think you've hit on what most of us fear, an unsatisfactory
> ending. I don't think for a moment that JKR would cheat us with 
an "it
> was all a dream" ending, but I am afraid that she'll have Harry 
doing
> something that violates the moral code she seems to be setting up
> here, specifically, I'm afraid that she'll have Harry murder 
Voldemort
> with an Unforgiveable Curse. (I don't care that Voldemort deserves 
it;
> I don't want Harry to be stained with the evil of his enemy's 
weapons.)
> 

Hmmm.  Well, we know that Voldemort has to die, unless we are being 
very badly misled indeed by the prophecy.  Why does it matter HOW he 
dies?  Dead is dead is dead, killing is killing is killing.  Someone 
killed by LOVE is still as dead as someone killed by AK.

Are you arguing that it will make some difference for Harry?  I 
suppose it could, although we are starting to flirt with some 
problematic plotting here.  Is Harry going to fill himself with love 
and then kill Voldemort with nothing but love in  his heart?  Is he 
to feel nothing but love for Voldemort even as he destroys him?  Is 
he to be like the angel in C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" who lays 
hands on the tempting demon and burns it into ash simply with the 
force of the goodness of his radiant essence?  Okay, I could see 
that, although I personally would not find it very satisfying as at 
that moment Harry would transcend his humanity and become something 
quite unworldly - something that I, personally, could not relate to.
Others, however, might well see this differently.

Lupinlore