Oh, Madame Pomfrey. I respect you so much for saying this, especially since you've spent so much time treating the pain that violent people cause. If it were me, I think I'd find it hard not to want to hurt them back.
But you really don't and I admire that so much. And I guess you can never tell what will happen--like when you saved Professor Dolohov, and then he helped save Ced later.
But those women... I don't know, even if killing him didn't give them peace, at least they know he'll never be able to hurt them again or re-create the Machine. And I don't think they'd be able to say that if we just Obliviated him & put him in prison somewhere. Obliviation can sometimes be reversed, and prisons can be escaped from. Or broken into.
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Date: 2014-01-02 05:27 am (UTC)But you really don't and I admire that so much. And I guess you can never tell what will happen--like when you saved Professor Dolohov, and then he helped save Ced later.
But those women... I don't know, even if killing him didn't give them peace, at least they know he'll never be able to hurt them again or re-create the Machine. And I don't think they'd be able to say that if we just Obliviated him & put him in prison somewhere. Obliviation can sometimes be reversed, and prisons can be escaped from. Or broken into.