Dumbledore asking Harry to kill (Was: High Noon for OFH!Snape)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 149500

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:

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> But nevertheless, regardless of what I want to happen, it looks as 
> if Dumbledore is asking Harry to take upon himself the burden of 
> killing for the common good. 

And that's part of why many listies, including myself, have 
speculated that the end of the series will NOT involve flat-out 
killing of Voldemort, but something different and somehow 
thematically appropriate.  When Dumbledore was completely "Yes, you 
have to kill", it set off my warning bells of that being precisely 
what is not going to happen.

After all, very often in stories of this sort there comes a time when 
the Hero must do the deed, and frequently has some kind of 
culminating realization as to what precisely he must do--and it's 
often very different from what he thought he had to do, or what his 
mentor told him his task was.  (Examples are thick on the ground in 
the fantasy genre.)

So if that ends up being the case, I think it's clear why the 
thematic objection which Alla made could be a very strong one.

-Nora wishes she could relax as well as the dog can...