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Harry himself is effectively a paroled murderer. In his past he killed his old master with magic, claimed self defense and got off on a technicality.

I think this misrepresents things a bit. His master summoned one of the worst beings in existence for the express purpose of hunting him down and killing him. And at this point, Harry has no idea about the existence of the wider magical world; he’s not going to be able to get help from the White Council or anything. There’s no “technicality” there—Harry really didn’t have other choices.

Now, I also understand why the council was (is) edgy about him, both because of the way using magic to kill can corrupt you and because of essentially all of his actions since then. But to suggest that killing his master was anything less than a legitimate necessity in the moment is unfair.

134 days ago
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Harry himself is effectively a paroled murderer. In his past he killed his old master with magic, claimed self defense and got off on a technicality.

I think this undersells things a bit. His master summoned one of the worst beings in existence for the express purpose of hunting him down and killing him. And at this point, Harry has no idea about the existence of the wider magical world; he’s not going to be able to get help from the White Council or anything. There’s no “technicality” there—Harry really didn’t have other choices.

Now, I also understand why the council was (is) edgy about him, both because of the way using magic to kill can corrupt you and because of essentially all of his actions since then. But to suggest that killing his master was anything less than a legitimate necessity in the moment is unfair.

134 days ago
1 score