Wandlore and more

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 185424

> > Magpie:
> > Molly kills Bellatrix in a moment where she thinks she's going to
> kill  Ginny. 
> 
> Pippin:
> Voldemort was going to kill Ginny and everyone else.  Harry found a
> way to stop that from happening without killing Voldemort by using 
his
> own willingness to die to cast a spell of protection.  In effect, he
> disarmed Voldemort, and  it was Voldemort's inability to accept that
> he's been disarmed which led to his death.
 
Magpie:
Yes, Harry was given a way to not only stop Voldemort from hurting 
anyone but have him end up dead without killing him. Molly, by 
contrast, sees a woman she thinks is about to kill her daughter and 
fires off something that kills her in that heated moment.
 
Pippin: 
> Granted that  Harry had strategic as well as moral reasons for not
> trying to kill Voldemort, but still, if he hadn't been looking for a
> way to stop Voldemort without killing him, he wouldn't have found 
one. 
 
Magpie:
He had a way of stopping him without killing him and also a way that 
killed him without killing him. I don't know whether I'd describe him 
as specifically looking for a way not to kill him, though. Destroying 
the Horcruxes was killing him--you just had to kill him several times 
before it was permenant. He was looking for whatever he was supposed 
to do to stop him. He wasn't practicing AK, but he wasn't practicing 
anything. He was trying to figure out what Dumbledore wanted him to 
do. Voldemort couldn't be killed without "killing" Harry in some way. 
Harry doesn't kill anyone other than Horcruxes, and that puts him in 
a large group of characters who don't kill anyone. 
 
-m