Evil Anyone - Snake Duelling

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 39973

random monkey said:
"Understood, but by this logic, Ron, Hermione, Snape, Lupin, Sirius, 
Ginny, Neville, Fred, George, and Dumbedore cannot be evil. That does 
somewhat limit the choices."

The point has been made that the actual evil-doer in each book tends to be a new character, or one you didn't even think was human (e.g. Scabbers) so it's probably fairly hard to predict who will turn evil if this continues, and also means that it's not really limiting the choices for evildoers if you ignore these people.

A new point, though: JKR has said that her books are very moral places, and we see this particularly in Dumbledore's conversations with Harry, e.g. "It is our choices that make us who we are..." (approximate quotation). It just seems wrong that someone like Dumbledore would actually be working for Voldemort, or that Voldemort will eventually triumph: it seems at odds with the Good vs Evil battle that is central to the series. Evil can't triumph! That just doesn't happen! Good sort of *has* to win, albeit with sacrifices, or there was no point in making it such a moral place to begin with, if you're then going to tell people: "Nah, forget what I said about being good, you loser". 

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Debbie said:
"Snape's actions at the duelling club revealed to 
Harry that he's a Parselmouth, but that was only information that he would 
need *if* he chose to look for the Chamber of Secrets.  In fact, I'm not at all convinced that Snape knew Harry was a Parselmouth."  

Going on the premise that Snape isn't actually trying to kill anyone at Hogwarts (he protects Harry when Quirrel is cursing him on the broom, etc), if Snape deliberately showed Harry he was a Parselmouth to enable him to talk to the basilisk, that means Snape knew it was a basilisk that was attacking students. Wouldn't he reveal this? Even if he wasn't particularly fond of the students who were attacked, it would be a nice opportunity for Snape to show off his knowledge, and he could even volunteer some Basilisk-slaying strategies. Surely that would enhance his DADA application in the future? 

Rosie




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