Whom did Dumbledore torture and killed? WAS: Re: re:Scrimgeour/WerewolfBites

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179749

> Alla:
 To me it may mean 
> the IF that Dumbledore indeed always tried to avoid it, but found 
it 
> very hard to do so ( but did so in any event)
> 
> 
> It is like if somebody would tell me - you never smoke if you could 
> avoid it. I would find it perfectly reasonable to respond with 
true, 
> true.

a_svirn:
Then you'd mislead that somebody with you answer, because they would 
think that you do smoke under certain circumstances, when it is 
really impossible to avoid it. And if you wouldn't elaborate it would 
be up to their imagination to imagine those circumstances.  

> Alla:
> Same way here, I think it is reasonable to say if Dumbledore never 
> killed that he never killed if he could avoid it, because it was 
> hard for him to do so. Like he knew he was tempted to kill, but 
> never did, etc.
> 
a_svirn:
This is something Dumbledore never said! Whom was he tempted to kill? 
Ariana? He wasn't even tempted to kill Voldemort, as far as we know. 
He certainly wasn't temted to kill Grindenwald, quite the contrary, I 
should imagine. 

> Alla:
> And if he did kill, we have how many mentions of him doing so? Um, 
> Arianna, maybe.

a_svirn:
And that was something that could have been avoided, if it comes to 
that.