NECESSITY of killing?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141839


> SSSusan:
>> 
> I know that the other day, I presented this argument
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/141611 :
> 
> >>>Consider that DD talks openly with Harry about what he believes 
> to be the NECESSITY (or perhaps inevitability?) for either Harry 
to 
> kill Voldy or Voldy to kill Harry. He confirms this to Harry in 
OoP, 
> and he **doesn't** later, in HBP, tell Harry, "Gee, I hate that 
you 
> have to do this, because you know it's going to rip your soul!"
> 
> In *my* mind, I could easily see the reason that DD does not say 
such
> a thing to Harry (even when the topic is right there before them as
> they talk about horcruxes!) as that he knows this is WAR, this is 
an
> issue of The Greater Good. And perhaps he knows or suspects that
> this kind of killing wouldn't rip Harry's soul.

I don't know whether the killing of Voldemort would or would not rip 
Harry's soul, but I `d like to point out that for Voldemort it's 
also the matter of utmost *necessity* to destroy Harry. One after 
all can't live if the other survives. Even though Voldemort does not 
know the whole text of the Prophesy its first part is quite 
sufficient to make Harry's killing the first priority for him. If 
*necessary* killings is "permissible" and do not result in soul-
ripping, then the killing of the Potters should have leaved 
Voldemort's soul intact. 
a_svirn