Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables.

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 174930

> ****Katie responds:
> Again, I agree so much, I don't know where to begin. Molly had 
> already lost a child that day. All of her children and her husband 
> were in danger of being killed. She sees her daughter about to be 
> killed by the nastiest nasty next to Voldemort himself...I'd get 
> pretty maternal, too. I'm glad she killed Bellatrix. I'm glad she 
> called her a bitch. I'm glad Molly got a chance to protect one of 
> her children, even after losing Fred.  Molly needs to make no 
> excuses to me. 
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> And I, for one, actively wanted her dead from the moment she 
killed  the poor innocent fox at the beginning of HBP. I was quite 
happy to  see her go. 
> 
> I continue to not understand why so many people expect that our 
> heroes should have guilt about killing or hurting these awful 
> people. It's not like they're hurting innocents. And I do not 
> believe that it says something about their lack of moral fiber...


Tonks:
I am one that has some concerns about Molly. And she is one of my 
favorites. But what kind of a message is Rowling sending? This is 
not a black and white option. And Molly's response is not what we 
are told to do as a Christian. It is a very difficult point and I 
don't really know the answer. Maybe Rowling did it that way to show 
us that there is no easy answer.

When we kill those who are killers, do we not become one of them? 
How is our killing different than theirs? I understand that we can 
not allow someone to kill our family. I would probably respond in 
self defense and to protect my family too, just as Molly did. But 
does that make my actions right? I think it makes me a fallen human 
being. And I also thing that we as human beings are meant to find a 
way to something higher. But what? How can we protect ourselves and 
those that we love without becoming like the very ones we are 
fighting against? Victim and perpetrator are one. There is no 
separating us.  As we see with Harry, the only way to separate the 
two is for one to be willing die. But as someone said to me 
recently, if Christians practiced what they preach they would be 
very few of them left.  I don’t know the answer, but I think it far 
more than just an eye for an eye.

Tonks_op