Bang! You're Dead. (was:Voldemorts animus...)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:


Kneasy:
> Note also that Moody was supposed to be the star Auror. Is he evil or
> stricken with a conscience that makes him run around chanting "Mea culpa?"
> No. It's also canon that the old Order had other Aurors as members. Didn't
> seem to bother Dumbledore much, so far as I can see. As the epitome of
> goodness you would expect him to take an immovable moral stand, but I 
> can't find any evidence of this. Moody is mentioned as one of his oldest
> friends, not an untouchable pariah who participated in Dark Magic.


Geoff:
But may I remind you of the quote which I gave from GOF -

"'I'll say this for Moody, though, he never killed IF HE COULD HELP
IT. Always brought people in alive where possible. He was tough but
he never descended to the level of the Death Eaters.'" 

(GOF UK edition p.462)

My emphasis.

The suggestion from Sirius was that Crouch was prepared to indulge in 
the use of the Unforgiveables as a matter of course and appeared to 
enjoy it. He was also responsible for sending folk to Azkaban without 
a trial, knowing what that particualr hellhole was like - (reminds me 
of some of the internment problems in Northern Ireland a decade ro so 
ago). 

Moody is like many people in a war situation; the implication is that 
he /did/ kill but only as a last resort. I can understand that. I can 
agree with Christians in the Confessing Church in Germany who were 
prepared to join in the 1944 conspiracy against Hitler because it 
seemed to be the only thing to stop the Nazis going into oblivion and 
pulling the whole country down with them. But there is a difference 
between those folk who allow themselves to be drawn in the direction 
of the evil which they fight and replace one form of oppression with 
another - Communist Russia for example - with those who reluctantly 
take that path because they echo Luther's words "Here I stand, I can 
do no other".

Geoff