Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174637

 
> > colebiancardi
> <SNIP of the whole post>
> > (sure the DE's use these spells - but that doesn't make it right 
> for
> > the Trio or the Order to use them either.  Wrong is wrong, imho)
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> So, was it wrong for Snape to use AK? I mean, if one unforgivable 
> spell can be NOT unforgivable sometimes, why the others cannot?
> 
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colebiancardi:

yes, it WAS wrong for Snape to use the AK.  I still have not seen any
resolution, via canon, that he actually used the AK on DD.  Remember
all the threads on Snape & the AK prior to DH's?  I tried to bring it
up the other day, if anyone had found canon in DH's that it was a true
AK that Snape used, and not a non-verbal spell masked as an AK.

DD doesn't ask Snape to use an AK to kill him at all - the bit about
Snape worrying about his soul is about the killing DD;  not the use of
an Unforgiveable Curse.  DD tells Snape that only Snape will know if
it will harm his (Snape's) "soul to help an old man avoid pain &
humiliation" p 683 US ed


There is no mention of AK in this passage.  Obviously, the intent
behind the killing determines the damage to one's soul.  We used to
have discussions if all killings damage the soul;  it seems that DD's
words put that baby to rest :)  As another poster brought up earlier,
I believe it was Carol, DD might have wanted a more private death, not
such a public one.  

Snape avoids using Imperius on Dung - he instead uses a confunding
spell.  I believe that Snape does avoid using Unforgiveables, which
until canon proves otherwise, I don't believe he used an AK on DD in HBP.

colebiancardi
(but even if he did, it *was* still wrong)