Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 174819

 Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

> this is a big part of our problem 
> with the scene. There IS no regret
> expressed, either here or later. 
> Harry never does seem to "hate himself"
> afterward for what he has done.

I consider myself a nice guy, I'm certainly no monster, but I have to
tell you if I had used the Crucio as Harry did I would not feel the
smallest particle guilt, not for one second, not for one nanosecond.
Indeed if JKR had put Harry through an indulgent orgy of hand wringing
at that point it would be imposable for a reader (at least for this
reader) to feel anything other than contempt for the weakness of our
"Hero".

And the "Molly's revenge" thread seems even stranger to me, as if we
need to think long and hard to figure out if it is moral for a mother
to kill a notorious serial murder who is actively trying to kill one
of her children. Some actually think this is debatable and needs
thinking about! And after Molly whacked the creep is she supposed to
go through the hand wringing routine too? Remember the title of the
book was not "Harry Potter and the Quest for Pablum". 

 Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald