[HPforGrownups] Would DD Kill? Other Ways to Destroy a Man.

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 157716

Hi All,
 
Tonks_op asks:
>>> Would DD actually take someone's life? I think he would not. At one point DD tells LV that "we both know that there are other ways to destroy a man, Tom". Would DD use one of those methods himself? I get the sense that the "other methods" are worse than murder. Like the Dementor's kiss for example. Does anyone wonder why LV hasn't attempted to use one of these "other methods" on Harry? What are these "other methods" that both DD and LV know about? <<<
 
I think this may be more a diversion than an answer, but for me it is about JKR's vision of humanity. We never see a goodie kill a baddie. The goodies were the first to realise that they were at war, but they are the last to risk taking a life. And I feel this is because the possibility of redemption, of living up to Dumbledore's vision of what a person might be, should be held on to. So no I cannot see Dumbledore, or any of his followers now he's gone, using a technique like the Dementor's Kiss that would remove the possibility of redemption.
 
I think I've used this quote here before, sorry. I was brought up a Quaker and they have this quote from George Fox: "Walk cheerfully over the earth answering that of God in everyone." If you change "God" to "good" then that looks like Dumbledore to me.
 
Cheers,
 
Dumbledad.
 
PS Of course I could be wrong. I read HBP twice on its release and haven't reread it since. Perhaps its littered with deaths that my 40 year old brain has forgotten.


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