Enviable and pitiable characters

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 35696

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:
> If he were one of my teachers and I were having difficulty with his
> subject, I would feel perfectly comfortable going to him out of 
> class for extra help; I suspect that most of Hogwarts' students
> feel the same way. 

Yes, but if he were my House master (Flitwick is Master of Ravenclaw 
and I am a Ravenclaw) I don't think I could bear to go to him with 
any problem about sex or broken hearts or other students picking on 
me...  This short guy who squeaks in excitement and falls off his 
desk...  

> So Amos gets my pity vote.
> 
> And as for that suggestion that someone (I can't remember who,
> sorry) made a while back that poor Amos Diggory might be high 
> on the list of Characters Now Vulnerable To Seduction By the 
> Dark Side, all I can say is: my God, have you no *heart?*
> I mean, the very thought!  It just makes me want to drop my
> head down on the keyboard and *weep,* that does.

Yes, Amos is just *destroyed* to lose his son who meant everything 
to him.  The only way I can think of for him to be seduced by the 
Dark Side (the murderers of his son! on whom surely he seeks more 
vengeance!) now is if some Death Eater recruiter persuaded him that 
Voldemort's Dark Magic and Immortality Spells could bring Cedric back 
to life.