Moody's death (was: Dumbledore's authority WAS: Re: Fees for Harry)

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 179474

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> a_svirn:
> Here is from OED:
> expendable, a. (and n.) that may be expended; considered as not 
worth 
> preserving or salvaging; <snip>
> The key connotation here is "considered as not worth preserving". 
In 
> other words – canon folder. Sirius did not mean that at all. He 
meant 
> it as a free choice, he did not mean – could not mean – that any 
> member of the Order can be sacrificed by other members of the 
order 
> because he or she is not worthy of preserving! 

lizzyben:

And constrast this with what Kingsley Shacklebot said in DH: "Every 
human life is worth the same, and worth saving." That's probably one 
of the only statements in DH that really expressed a clear moral 
vision. But to DD, it seems like every life was expendable, & worth 
losing. DD's methods went directly against the ideals that they were 
supposedly fighting for. But Kinglsey's statement is later echoed by 
Snape, who mentions saving every life he could. I don't think we're 
meant to accept that DD's way is the right way or the moral way.