[HPforGrownups] 7 Heavenly Virtues: Charity (Long)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 4443


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From: "Peg Kerr" <pkerr06 at attglobal.net>
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Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:58 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] 7 Heavenly Virtues: Charity (Long)


> >
> I'm not very satisfied with this essay.  I don't think it's one of my
> best.  I can't remember who it was who remarked at the end of a letter
> to a friend that he didn't have time to write a four-page letter, so he
> had written an eight-page one (Chesterton, maybe?)

IIRC, it was Madame de Stael (aka Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein,
1766-1817)

Your essay is quite good - charity is a difficult concept to nail down.

You may want to look at Charity from the perspective of the other major
characters: e.g., Snape - clearly he does not like Harry and is willing to
harass him in all sorts of petty ways - yet is he still able to protect
Harry when the situation demands it. Dumbledore seems at a spiritual point
where his own desires do not matter - he selflessly offers guidance to all
who recognize their need for it.

    - CMC