Harry will not kill (was Half blood prince disappointing)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 146282

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Harry Flashman" 
<harold.flashman at g...> wrote:
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Harry Flashman <harold.flashman at ...> wrote: 
One other thing that occurred to me is that while Harry has survived
Voldemort on several occasions, surviving and killing are 2 very
different things. Harry needs to kill Voldemort but clearly does not
have the skill (at least at the end of HBP) to do so.

Tonks:

Harry Potter will not kill.

I am sure that JKR is not writing a book for children (or even for 
adults) in which the hero kills.  Harry will not even kill in self 
defense.
Here is the proof:

First of all, DD is Harry's role model and DD has never killed. I do 
not think for one moment that DD weak and without a wand could not 
have killed everyone there on the tower that night if he had wanted 
to do so.  DD chose not to kill.  He chose to die instead. There may 
be other reasons as well why he chose to die, but one of them was 
that He will not kill. DD defeated Grindelwald, but we are not told 
that he killed him.  DD has said that there are many ways to destroy 
a man.  DD knows that to kill fractures the soul.  As a wise man he 
knew that "there are worse things than death".  In all of this he 
has taught Harry well, by word and by example.

Harry does not have it in him to kill.  Yes, he has been angry and 
tried to do some of the unforgivable curses.  But remember what 
Bella said.  You have to really mean it from the core of your being, 
and Harry doesn't'.  Harry is full of Love, with all that Love 
means.  Love does not kill.  Love suffers, Love forgives, Love 
endures, but Love does not kill.

Snape "No unforgivable curses from you, Harry Potter!" 

Snape also said that Harry is only a mediocre wizard and gets by 
with luck and help from his friends.  A lot like the rest of us.  
JKR has said that the books are very moral. I think that she has set 
Harry up to be a role model for children.  Harry is our role model 
too.  He shows us how to go on Loving no matter what.  He screws up 
sometime, but carries on
 with a lot of luck and the help of his 
friends.  And in the end if he survives it will be with luck and the 
help of his friends.  If he dies, it will be his sacrifice of Love.

Tonks_op