Killing tears the soul apart redux. WAS: Re: Snape's penance?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 139449

> houyhnhnm:
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> 
> BTW, with respect to "killing tears the soul", I still maintain 
that
> this is *not* canonical, if it means that any taking of life
> (regardless of motive or circumstances) damages the soul in some
> irremediable way that lying, bullying, cheating, hurting, and 
hating
> (committed by so many of the characters in the HP books) do not.
> 
> I want to see quotations with page numbers.


Alla:

Whole story about Tom Riddle creating Horcruxes is a metaphor, which 
to me stands for "killing tears your soul apart" 
So, I would give  quotations and page numbers for every time Harry 
watches the story of Tom's Riddle life. Too many numbers to quote, 
sorry. :-)

I just realised that another very important moment in canon may 
foreshadow the idea that killing tears your soul apart.

I am talking about Harry not letting Sirius and Remus kill Peter. 
Now, of course Harry has no clue about horcruxes yet, but could be 
that giving the motivation for his decision  as:

"I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because - I don't reckon 
my dad would've wanted them to become killers- just for you" - PoA, 
paperback, p.376.

The narrator may foreshadow that Harry is saving Remus and Sirius 
souls here and prevents them from hurting, splitting. 
Notice, that this is the killing that many would have called 
righteous, or at least righteous revenge - Peter certainly committed 
many sins, IMO, and still Hary stops it because  he thinks that 
Remus and Sirius should not be killers ( or he thinks that James 
would have thought so, whatever).


JMO,

Alla.