Making a Horcrux

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No: HPFGUIDX 146413

Andie:

Hi everyone!  I'm re-reading HBP for about the 4th time and I need 
other opinions on the way I'm understanding this.

LV is asking Slughorn about how to make a horcrux, pg 498 US version.
"But how do you do it?  By an act of evil - the supreme act of evil.  
by committing murder.  Killing rips the soul apart.

Ok, let me see if I can make sense of what I'm thinking.  There are 
different ways to kill someone.  There is *murder*, when you take a 
life just to take a life which would rip the soul.  But if you are 
defending yourself or someone else, that IMHO is not *murder* and 
your soul should not be torn.

If a bank robber has a gun & just shoots the teller because they are 
in his way, then that is murder.  If the police or security guard or 
whoever, shoots the bank robber, to me that is not murder.  Or if you 
see a crime being committed, someone is abducting a child and you are 
able to stop it by shooting the abductor, that is not murder.

When Draco had DD defenseless on the tower, that would have been 
murder, but when the group is fighting off the DE's in the hall & one 
of the DE's is killed, that is not murder.

When Harry meets up with Voldy he will be defending himself and 
whoever else is with him.  If he AK's him or finds another way to 
kill him that is not murder that is self defense.  Therefore, his 
soul should not be torn.  Which would mean that his soul would remain 
whole and not be damaged.

Does anyone else see it this way?