Out of curiosity, is there any particular reason why kinslaying is Not Recommended in your world? (Besides the obvious, of course?)
Well, kinslaying has the obvious stigma, but there has always seemed to me to exist some exaggerated sense of bad karma associated with it. Killing people in general is bad. Killing members of your own family appears to be somewhat worse in the heirarchical sense. My assumption was that this is not just figurative in the wizarding world, but a very literal curse that is born when the act occurs.
Which, of course, leads me to wonder if something like that may figure into the final confrontation with Voldemort (since he killed his father).
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Date: 2005-08-23 09:27 pm (UTC)Well, kinslaying has the obvious stigma, but there has always seemed to me to exist some exaggerated sense of bad karma associated with it. Killing people in general is bad. Killing members of your own family appears to be somewhat worse in the heirarchical sense. My assumption was that this is not just figurative in the wizarding world, but a very literal curse that is born when the act occurs.
Which, of course, leads me to wonder if something like that may figure into the final confrontation with Voldemort (since he killed his father).