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1998-february, ^ daily prophet, x-character: lee jordan

15th February 1998 • The Wizarding World's Beguiling Broadsheet of Choice • 5 κ

Do the Ends Justify the Means, or Do We Need to Get Ourselves Better Means?
By Lee Jordan, Staff Writer
In the late morning of February 12th, Rodolphus Lestrange was found dead in his home in Devonshire by a friend. In addition to him, his house elf was also found dead. There were injuries to his body, but no sign of a struggle in the house. As of right now, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is looking into the cause of death and the culprit. Word is that some heavy dark magic was used, including but not limited to, the killing curse. As many may have neglected to forget, Rodolphus Lestrange was convicted and sentenced to Azkaban as a Death Eater in January of 1981. He was one of the many war criminals Minister Black released from Azkaban in 1990. He was a contributing factor in the war, and he likely committed countless crimes against our very society because of it. Such a death like this tends to divide the camps we place ourselves in. Many are saying good riddance, he should've rotted away in Azkaban in the first place. Others are finding themselves still being punished for a war our minister claims ended twenty years ago with the death of I-Still-Can't-Publish-His-Name-But-I'm-Going-To-Have-Fun-Coming-Up-With-New-Nicknames-For-The-Bloke. This situation does raise a few good questions, though. The question that seems to be on everybody's mind is – is it really murder when a known fugitive is the victim? Before, the deaths pouring in were predominantly of the muggle faction. It was easy to paint them as victims, subjected to purism and violence, but never really the perpetrator. They'd done nothing wrong, and did not deserve the hand they were dealt. Now that the death is a pureblooded ex Death Eater,	can we really forgive him his past sins enough to actually care that he got killed? But there are more questions to ask, and your Daily Prophet is here to ask them, because Merlin knows I don't know enough of the answers. Why is dark magic being used against a perpetrator of dark magic? Is this a case of somebody doing bad in the name of good and do they deserve to be punished as heavily as we would've punished Lestrange? Dark magic is dark magic is dark magic, is it not? Does the ends justify the means if the death is a person nobody really cared about? Are we so bias that we'll draw a line in the sand, forbidding people to cross that line, but deem it appropriate if we cross it ourselves? If we intend to move on from the war our Minister has already begun to move on from, shouldn't we move on from it under the belief that we're all held to equal standards, forbidden from breaking equal laws, no matter who the victim is? We are all human, are we not? Death is the only thing we've got in common now, and we've got that plentiful enough. So I ask you, readers, to stay wide awake. Don't sleep on this. Question everything. These are not times for contentment. Does it matter who the victim is if his death is as unjust as the others? If he is murdered in his own home, with dark magic, and no empirical evidence of him having done any immediate wrong doing since his questionable rehabilitation – does his death matter? And if it does not, then what does that say about the society we're attempting to save?

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