Of identities and truth

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 38928

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Robin Walker <rgwalker_27 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Now, I know that Amanda's question was limited to
> "people associated with Voldemort."  But what about
> the people trying to stop Voldemort?  Do they have to
> wander away from their true selves in order to match
> him -- to fight fire with fire?  Writ large, does the
> pursuit of evil necessarily involve becoming evil (or
> at least, doing things that evil people might do)? 
> Or, enlarging even that last question: is there good
> or evil in each of us, ready to be used when we
> want/need it?
> 

I think we need more background on the first Voldemort war to see if 
any of our heros/heroines used evil against evil.  However, we do 
have Sirius' chat with the Trio in GoF where he talks about Crouch 
becoming as cruel and ruthless as the DEs, including authorizing 
Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses.  If Sirius' interpretation of 
the public mood at the times is correct, these developments were 
approved of by many people.  On the other hand, Sirius also tells us 
that Moody always tried to bring suspects in alive.

So, yes, it seems that Moody, at least, recognized that the forces of 
good were, at least some of the time, acting in ways that could be 
contrued as evil.  And he himself made the conscious decision that he 
would not rely on these methods exclusively, but only use them as a 
last resort.

Marianne