Molly's "revenge" Re: Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 174766

 


Lizzyben:
Molly gets full caps-lock revenge against Bellatrix,  and readers are
supposed to cheer. 
 
 
Julie:
I've had problems with some of the actions by the Good Guys in previous  
books,
and with Harry so easily casting the Crucio curse in DH. But I have  
absolutely no
issue with Molly's action here, and in fact I *did* cheer her ("You GO,  
Girl!!!").
Bellatrix was NOT standing around unarmed or inactive, she was right in the  
thick
of battle. She had already killed, including her own niece (as I  recall), 
and was
in the act of attacking with intent to kill again. Molly knows this,  and at 
the same 
time she's trying to protect her children, she has JUST lost one of  them. 
So, that
she would go a bit berzerk as she goes after Bellatrix is perfectly  
understandable
IMO. And that she would kill Bellatrix IN THE MIDST OF A DEADLY BATTLE  is
certainly also understandable, and necessary to preserve what lives are  
left. (She
may have derived a sense of "revenge" by her act, but  it was a wholly 
justified act,
and what grieving mother--and friend to Tonks and Lupin--wouldn't feel that  
way?)
 
Julie, who really doesn't get this one, as what was Molly supposed to do,  
other
than *silently* kill the  attacking and very vicious murderer Bellatrix, who  
really
had to be killed to be stopped.


 



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