I HAD A DREAM OR HOW I REALIZED THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG./ PART 2 sort of

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 167079


> Alla:
> I am not sure what we are disagreeing over here. I agree that AK 
> personifies intent to kill, I do not think that there are any other 
> spells that do so, and that is why IMO this is one of the very 
worst 
> sins of Potterverse to use it, because you have to have an intent 
to 
> do so.

zgirnius:
A person who takes a ton of bricks, deliberately Wingardium Leviosa's 
them over someone's head, and then deliberately drops them, also has 
intent to kill. So does a Muggle who puts a deadly poison in 
someone's drink, no magic involved at all. I hope we can agree that 
these acts, too, would be among the very worst sins in any universe.

Which again raises the question - is the AK any more evil than any 
other way of deliberately killing a human being?

Personally, I think the idea that it is worse undermines the 
applicability of any moral lessons people might take away from the 
books to real life. Because, as it happens, the AK is not available 
to us. I mean, if I were in Snape's situation on the Tower, and I 
made Snape's choice, would the fact that I would need to push 
Dumbledore off the tower make me a better person than Snape? And if 
not, why would it make him a worse person, that he did not?