Voldemort killed personally?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 157160

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

Geoff:
> > Regarding moaning Myrtle, surely the Basilisk killed her, according
> to her own testimony in COS. <snip>
 
Carol:
 > Surely, Geoff, you don't think that Tom Riddle is innocent of Myrtle's
> death and it was all the Basilisk's fault? True, it's a bloodthirsty
> and murderous beast, classified as XXXXX by the MoM bcause it's so
> deadly, but who released it? Why was it released, if not to kill
> people? Whose command was it under? Who was with it and spoke to it
> before it killed Myrtle? Who "set it on" her, to use Diary!Tom's own
> phrase? 

Geoff:
No. but there is a subtle difference. The name of this thread is 
'Voldemort killed //personally//".

I take that to mean situations where he himself pointed the wand 
and cast the curse. It's a bit like having a contract killer to do your 
dirty work for you. You are still guilty of the murder.

In some of the recent war crime trials, the prosecution seems to have 
had to be able to accuse the prisoner of actually having committed a 
murder themselves in order to make the charge stick. If we are going 
to list all the people kiled by Death Eaters, then our list is going to 
run out of control.

I hope that clarifies the way in which my thoughts have been moving.