[HPforGrownups] Re: Idle musings on Book Six

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 27817

Megan wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., fourfuries at a... wrote:

> > How 'bout Rita Skeeter?
> 
> Annoying?  Yes.  Should be completely stricken from GOF (IMO)?  Yes.
> A disgrace to witches and journalism?  Yes.
> Evil?  No.
> 
> I don't think we can classify Rita under that category of "truly
> evil".  If she's evil, then Dobby and Lockhart are too...because they
> irritate me just as much.

I wouldn't classify Rita Skeeter as evil because she's
irritating.  (Or Lockhart either, for that matter.)  I classify
them both as evil because they knowingly do things that harm
others in order to serve their own ends.  By these standards, of
course, Dobby is =not= evil.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>