[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort killed personally?

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157195

> Carol:
> Just a side note regarding Myrtle's death: When Wormtail kills Cedric
> on Baby!mort's orders, he's acting as Voldemort's *agent*, a person
> who acts on another's orders and carries out that person's will, not
> as his *instrument* (the weapon used to bring about the death). The
> wand is the murder instrument. But when the Basilisk, which is not
> human and therefore can't be an agent (it has no free will or ability
> to reason),

Random832:
Other snakes have been shown to have A) obviously, the ability to use
language. B) the ability to form complex ideas like wanting to go home
to brazil. Why do you think snakes, and therefore the basilisk, don't
have free will, in the context of HP?

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Random832