[HPforGrownups] Re: 101 Easier Ways to Deliver Harry to the Dark Lord (was New member)

Mon Jan 22 02:59:33 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 10093

Rita Winston wrote:

> But I imagine that evil which is not melodramatic is even more
> dangerous.

Not necessarily. Melodrama is not as predictable as practicality, because
melodrama requires the ego to do grand, glorious, weird things which make
sense only to the ego, and are viciously hard to predict or guard against.
Practial evil, with no ego involved, simply takes the shortest distance
between two points, as it were. It seems more dangerous simply because
most people can't think practically when you involve a human element.
We're more comfortable with melodrama. Even if we can't predict it.

Did that make sense? I'm rambling a lot tonight.

--Amanda