Chicken Meat (was Analysis and HP4GU, and On Respect and Kindness)

[meboriqua at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23453

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:

These are fantastic questions, David.  My mind is working furiously to 
respond.
 
> Wizard justice and prejudice.  We have generally agreed that the 
pensieve shows a very defective process.  Why is the wizarding world 
so bad at it?  Why, given what she writes, is Rita Skeeter an 
apparently successful journalist?>

Ah, prejudice.  Just like in the real world.  Tabloid magazines sell 
like there's no tomorrow here in the States, and people often believe 
everything they read.  I think JKR is reflecting that in HP.  Rita 
Skeeter has a knack for choosing topics people want to read about.  

I think the justice system (here in the States) is also very flawed.  
Just look at the number of minorities (African American and Latino) in 
jail vs the number in the country and there you go.  The pensieve 
scene seems, in some ways, to be a comparison to the way justice 
systems really do deem people guilty before proven innocent.    
> 
 I contend that there is fundamentally only one way to be evil, but a 
million possibilities for goodness.  What are they in Harry Potter?>

I love what you wrote about the building.  Goodness?  To me, 
Dumbledore is Good.  He is open minded, has a sense of humor, 
especially about himself, gives people second chances, and treats 
those around him equally.  How anyone could suspect him of being bad 
is beyond me.

Wow.  I have just written and deleted three different ideas about 
Goodness.  This is a tough one.  I think I'll let others respond 
because my thinking on this is not organized.  I will get back to 
this, though, because I have thought about this quite a lot, 
especially Harry's specialness and goodness.  I'm just not ready right 
now to discuss it.

--jenny from ravenclaw****************************