I don't mean to make light of this type of situation but after reading and seeing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I'm left remembering the scene where Professor Slughorn is aghast at the prospect of Tom Riddle splitting his soul in 7 pieces by murdering 7 people. How could anyone even consider killing 7 people? Isn't even a single person too much?
Judaism believes that people like Tom Riddle (a.k.a. Voldemort) have no true way to repent for taking someone's life. The closest a murderer can come to forgiveness is the devotion of his life to repentance and acts of loving-kindness.
Day 194: When a Jew Acts Dishonestly Toward a Non-Jew
"Dishonesty is dishonesty, and, regrettably, there have always been some dishonest Jews. However, for a Jew to attribute his dishonesty to Judaism is to turn God into his accomplice in crime. Such an act is known in Jewish law as a chillul Hashem, a profaning of God's name; it is one of a very few sins that the tradition deems unforgivable" (279).
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