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[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 78553

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
>  Catlady (always one of my favourite posters. Did I mention that?) 

*purrs*

(snips long and wonderful musings on the Sisters Black and Mitford) 

> 
> I don't know why I'd assumed Andromeda was no longer with us. Had 
> anyone else?

I've read posts on this list that so assume, but I've never 
understood where they got that idea.

> Lockhart...oops. I have a feeling that I may have unconsciously 
> passed him over because he didn't fit in with the original 
> formulation of my theory. I'd say he was amoral rather than evil 
> too. Yes, the memory wipe is extremely unpleasant, but I'm not 
> entirely sure that Harry ever gets any real sense of how evil it
> is, as Gilderoy is so utterly comic throughout that the intensity
> is  blunted. 

Lockhart may have been amoral rather than evil in his normal career 
of selfishly Obliviating people who otherwise could have gone on 
rescuing wizarding folk from monsters, but he was clearly EVIL when 
he meant to Obliviate Harry and Ron into insanity just in order to 
leave poor Ginny to die. Merely amoral would have been to just run 
away, to save his own skin, but not prevent others from trying to 
save her.

> But my wrist is feeling well and truly slapped, Ma'am...

No! Don't say that, I mean, don't *mean* that!