Harry Killing in HBP (was re: Violence)

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 131863

Lupinlore:
edit...
But will Harry kill Voldemort at all? And after all, what difference
does it really make HOW he kills Voldy? Avada Kedavra, Magnum .357,
stupefy spell and dropping him out the window, filling him with love
and watching him melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, all of it is
ultimately the same. Voldy will be dead and Harry will have killed
him.

Kemper now:
The difference is intent.  Is Harry aware that filling LV with love 
will kill LV?  If he's not aware this, then it was an accident.  If 
he is aware, then it's murder.
I don't want to see Harry become a murderer.  And Harry merely taking 
LV's life would not satisfy me, I admit...  It's too tidy of a wrap 
up.  What then..?, 'Harry left King's Cross.  No one was there to 
greet him.  He walked to his new home in London wondering if he was a 
murderer or a hero.'
If Harry accidently kills LV, I think Harry can live with that much 
easier, like Dorothy seemed unshaken with the whole water bucket 
incident.  Dorothy didn't intend to murder the WWW

Back to Lupinlore:

Edit ... 
Harry [may] be forced to kill someone, perhaps Malfoy, Sr., while 
protecting himself and Dumbledore, or perhaps after Dumbledore's 
death. Thus he will have the summer to stew on that, and to prepare 
himself for what is to come.

In fact, that would provide a great deal of symmetry, wouldn't it?
At the end of OOTP, Harry sees death inflicted on a loved one. At
the end of HBP, Harry inflicts death on someone else's loved one.

Kemper again:
More realistically, since Harry has that saving people thing, Harry 
would save Draco from Lucius or LV.  While this doesn't provide any 
symmetry, it does provide with an example of a thing much worse than 
death... Draco living with realization that his father is willing to 
have Draco killed/sacrificed, the father who he brags about not 
infrequently, the father who he discovers doesn't love him and never 
has.... what deception and betrayal Draco will have realized...  Now 
that seems like it would be worse than death for Draco, and it's 
better for my need to see Draco turned into a psychological gigantic 
slug without there ever have been thrown a curse or hex.  Ahh, now 
that's sweet, yumminess.

Kemper