Evil Is As Evil Does

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dicentra63 <dicentra at x>" 
<dicentra at x> wrote:
(about Draco Malfoy)
> 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?

Me:
How about spending 12 years of his life as a pet rat?  He got to be 
carried around in Ron's pocket and backpack, have spells practiced 
on him, eat fudgeflies (and God knows what else), and be terrorized 
by Crookshanks.  Of course, he didn't have much responsibility and 
seemed to find it pretty enjoyable until the last 9 months or so (he 
even got to bite Goyle!) when he found out Sirius was on the loose.  
He even brags about having been a "good pet" in the SS.  Peter sure 
embraces degradation as a result of his choices.

(Maybe Draco would actually "enjoy" being a ferret ;->).


Dicentra again:
> 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


Get in line!

Jo Serenadust, who wouldn't mind Lupin either