why didn't Dumbledore kill Voldemort while he had the chance...

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "laura" <watersign21 at y...> wrote:
> Well that's the question now isn't it, why didn't Dumbledore kill 
> Voldemort when he had the chance? My first thought is because, if 
> Voldemort and Harry are so connected, would killing him, affect Harry 
> in any way? Could it possibly kill him too? Just a thought, if anyone 
> has a bit of enlightenment for me, it would be refreshing. 
> 

Tonks:
DD does not kill. It is against his moral code. AK is an unforgivable 
curse. The greatest wizard of all time did not become that by breaking 
the law. Therefore LV will be defeated by something greater than an AK. 
Any fool can AK someone. (and with LV it might not work anyway) It 
takes a wise man like DD to rise above the lawlessness of the world and 
do something else. And I for one think that in so doing it will be a 
lesson to the WW and MW and reader about the nature of evil and how to 
deal with it.

Tonks_op