Is Bella a killer? WAS:,Re: Could Deathly Hallows

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> Jeremiah:
> I think it has more to dowith the character of Bellatrix than 
anything else.
> Is she the type of "Bad Guy" who would kill her own cousin knowing 
the is
> the last male in the line? Or, is she really a killer? She is a 
torturer, as
> we know, but killing someone is much greater in the HP world. She 
killed a
> fox (out of protection and, IMO, fear) but she didn't AK Harry at 
the
> ministry or Sirius at the veil.


Alla:

So, you are arguing that Bella is not a killer from her character 
perspective? Blinks. I see the exact opposite from her killing the 
fox so easily - I see her as soo trigger happy that she would kill 
in a second, without any hesitation.

And remember her being ready to sacrifice her potential sons for the 
cause?

I don't know, I have a problem with this line of argument. I need 
much more evidence to be convinced that Bella is **just** a torturer 
( and you know, horrible torture is often a way to um... kill the 
person). Bella IMO is a sadist, yes, who won't stop from inflicting 
pain, but does it prevent her from being a killer as well, why?


Jeremiah:
> But to get back to your origional question: I think having Sirius 
die from
> an accident is much more tragic. it's one of those: "And... Opps! 
he's dead"
> moments that come at you. If we had a "flash of green light" or 
read the
> curse as bellatrix said it then it would have been way too 
simplistic. Plus,
> that veil leaves us some gaping holes as far as what the nature of 
the
> Department of Mysteries really is all about.

Alla:

Yes, that is one of the possibilities, sure. Another one - that it 
leaves us with some potential holes about Sirius fate.


Jeremiah: 
> (Sorry to those who aren't into how a text functions. I was a 
Theatre major
> and took a lot of directing classes. I'm all about text analysis 
from a
> character's perspective).  :)
>

Alla:

Yeah, that's what most of us often do here among other things. But 
unless you have a private line with JKR :), your text analysis from 
character perspective is just one of the possible intepretations, me 
thinks :) 
Bella - good example, what seems so clear to you from character 
perspective, I do not see with magnifying glass even. Oh, and check 
into Snape threads,where we all think that we are analysing text 
from character perspective. Funnily, we cannot agree on a lot of 
things :)