Evil Is As Evil Does

[dicentra63 <dicentra@xmission.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> 
> Here's my problem with Evil!Draco: I cannot believe he is (evil).  
> Draco, if anything, is a self-preservationist.  Draco wants to 
> survive, to thrive....  Draco would join LV just to stay alive.  If 
> he feels that Dumbledore & Co are the losing side, and it's fairly 
> obvious he does, then he wants to be on the winning side.  He's only 
> human after all (at least, I'm pretty sure he's human *g*).

Yes, he seems remarkably like Peter Pettigrew, doesn't he?  Peter told
Sirius in the Shrieking Shack that he joined Voldemort for reasons of
self-preservation.  No doubt that's true.

But at what price this preservation?  Spying on his friends for a
year.  Betraying James and Lily to Voldemort, thus leading to their
deaths. Framing Sirius for 13 murders and letting him rot in Azkaban.
 Retrieving Voldemort and helping him become re-embodied.  Luring
Bertha Jorkins to Voldemort, where he "extracted" her memories and
disposed of her.  Assisting in sending Barty Jr. to Hogwarts so he
could deliver Harry to Voldemort to be killed.  Killing Cedric Diggory
in cold blood.  Losing his finger, then his hand.  Have I left
anything out?

Joining Voldemort will not entail mere lip service.  It's not like
hanging a swastika in your front window to keep the Gestapo out while
you hunker down inside and wait for it all to go away.  Joining
Voldemort means doing Voldemort's work.  It means destroying lives. 
It means committing murders.  It means selling your soul to the devil
and not asking for a refund.

Sure, Peter can look back on his actions and justify them as necessary
to save his life, but what kind of life has he saved?  

Me, I'd rather take the road Sirius said Peter should have taken: die
rather than do that kind of evil.

--Dicentra, who actually would rather just take Sirius, thanks