The editor was sobbing

[Adesa]

No: HPFGUIDX 167070

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com,

Carol:
However, I, personally, don't want Harry to use Avada Kedavra or any
other Dark Curse. The Unforgiveable Curses, it seems to me, corrupt
the mind and the soul. (Look at the Crouches, for example, or at the
probably irredeemable Bellatrix Lstrange.) I wish that Harry, who
knows what a Crucio feels like, would stop attempting to cast one, and
I think it would be simply wrong, an inversion of the morality of
JKR's world, for Harry to use the weapons of the enemy to kill him. I
would prefer for him to bring about Voldemort's death in some other
way, such as forcing him to go beyond the Veil (or summoning Fawkes to
act as suicide bomber?) rather like the One Ring's falling into the
Cracks of Doom causes Barad Dur to crumble and Sauron to fall into the
abyss, never to rise again.


AND Ken:

> Killing is an awful thing and it isn't an easy thing for decent
> people. In rare instances it is the right thing. Harry should do the
> right thing no matter the cost to himself. There are some burdens
> worth bearing. The only real way to avoid the anguish you want to
> spare Harry is to have someone else kill Voldemort. I'd say that 
there
> is a reasonable chance that Pettigrew or Snape will do just that.
> Severus has already spared one Hogwarts student the life long burden
> of knowing that he killed someone.

NOW Adesa:
Remember, too, that JKR believes (rightly, IMHO) that no one is *all* 
good or *all* evil. So even if Harry is the "good guy," that doesn't 
mean he won't resort to only "good" methods of fighting evil. I kinda 
like that he's tried unforgivables; he's more human to me when he's 
not quite so morally righteous. 

Voldemort, on the other hand? Hmm. I can't say that I see him as 
being redeemed in the end, but I *can* see (if this were the real 
world) someone like him finding redemption. Maybe not changing his 
life for good, perhaps, but certainly feeling regret. I know he seems 
more like someone who is clinically psychotic, but I have a hard time 
investing this much into a story where that's true. "Sorry <wiping 
hands> he's crazy, no hope. The end." To me, it's either he's 
redeemable or he's psycho. Therefore, he either finds redemption or 
gets killed. Harry is our hero; he'll either hand Voldemort 
redemption or take care of business himself. 

My money's on Harry offing the guy. Of course he'll feel guilty about 
such an act (he *is* a good guy), but he's a man with the Wizarding 
World on his shoulders, and he's up to it.

JMHO~
Adesa in Virginia