Harry, Draco and bathroom

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 162469

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> Magpie:
> <SNIP>
> So you don't think he should feel that even bastards like Malfoy
> shouldn't be killed? Because I do think that JKR is making that
> point strongly through Dumbledore especially. Or more accurately
> that there's more to bastards like Malfoy than just being a bastard
> like Malfoy. 
> 
> Alla:
> I must specify that I am talking **only** about self defense 
> situation, so in situation of self-defense if Harry **still* 
decides 
> that bastard like Malfoy, who threatened to kill him more than 
once, 
> who did at least some bodily damage to him at least once, should 
not 
> be killed, well – great.

a_svirn:
But if it is self defence (and I do believe it is) Draco's being a 
bastard is completely irrelevant. Moreover, once you start to bring 
up his moral qualities and innumerate Harry's grievances against 
Draco you instantly make Harry's own motives suspect. If Harry took 
all the wrongs Draco had committed into consideration the whole 
thing would look less like self-defence and more like revenge.