DADA Answers/Topics I dont want to see debated anymore/

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at j...> 
wrote:
> > 
> TOPICS I DON'T WANT TO SEE DEBATED ON THIS LIST ANYMORE: DRACO! 
DRACO!
> DRACO BEING EVIL/DRACO BEING REDEEMED... DRACO THIS/DRACO THAT.... 
IT'S
> BUGGIN' ME!!!!
> 

Now, you knew when you posted the above that you were throwing fuel 
on an already popular thread.  What is it about the conversation that 
bothers you?  Is it the fact that there is no right answer yet?  That 
is the case for every topic we discuss that can be affected in a 
later book.

Is it that so many people get off on grand skeins about right and 
wrong, personality, redemption and the like?  Well, the opportunity 
to debate these issues is what attracted me to HP for Grownups in the 
first place.  Seems I can't quite get my 10 and 12 year old sons to 
focus on these issues for more than 15 minutes at a time, so I end up 
lecturing on the topics (and I don't even enjoy MY lectures).

Draco is that person that we would all like to be if there were no 
EternalGod/BhuddhaNature/AbsoluteTruth/Ultimate Justice to fear.  
Rich, privileged, influential, popular, witty, probably attractive 
enough, and certainly used to getting his way.  In a word, he is 
powerful, and he raises the ultimate question of human morality (as 
does Voldemort, Dumbledore, Lucius, and to a lesser extent, Fudge):

Does Power Corrupt, and if so, Does it Corrupt Absolutely?

If it does, how do we avoid corruption withou being powerles (Harry, 
Dumbledore).  If it doesn't, why in the hell shouldn't everybody 
behave badly?  That's what we in the "Draco" thread have been 
discussing.  Got an opinion?

4FR (trying to get a better understanding of people different than 
himself).