Voldemort killed personally?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157185

Geoff wrote:
> I am in agreement with you here in that I was trying to make the
point that even if Voldemort encouraged/incited/ordered the Basilisk
and  Pettigrew inter alia to commit murder, he did not actually say
the words  and thus, in the case of Cedric, if anyone's soul got
split, it was Wormtail's. <snip>

Carol responds:
I agree with you regarding Wormtail. But in the case of the Basilisk,
which as I've argued elsewhere was the instrument, not the agent, of
Myrtle's death, just as the wand and poison were in Tom's other
murders, the soul that split, if any, would have been Tom's. I doubt
that Basilisks have souls, nor do they have free will, as Wormtail,
for all his fear of Voldemort, still does. 

In the case of the Basilisk, "Kill him!" or "Kill her!" operates in
exactly the same way as "Avada Kedavra" does with the wand. It's a
command for his *instrument* or *weapon* to commit the murder. IMO.

Carol, who thinks that Tom would agree with me that *he* murdered Myrtle