[HPforGrownups] Hermione and 'Evil is a strong word' (WAS Re: CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White Tomb)

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 165818

a_svirn:
>That's just it I don't see why she would hesitate to call him thus. 
>He *is* a murderer, after all, even if he killed for "the Greater 
>Good" (not that I believe that such thing exists, but for the sake of 
>argument.)  

Bart:
Just to set a context: Do you think soldier/snipers in times of war are murderers? Say, if they take out the radioman? If someone is carrying secret information, and is about to be captured, and another soldier is assigned to kill him if he gets captured. The first soldier does get captured, and the second soldier, following orders to which both soldiers agreed, kills him. Is the second soldier a murderer?

Bart