Dark Magic and Evil (WAS: Grindelwald and evil)

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52498

bboy_mn: 

> Certainly non-Dark Magic can be used in harmful ways, but that is
> different than the magic itself having some destructive element in
> it's creation. It's is reasonably possible for Dark Arts spell or
> potion to be used for a positive purpose, but that doesn't erase the
> destructive element that went into creating it. 'Does the means
> justify the end?' 

Quite right -- Hand of Glory: In a story I read, making it was based 
on a hand taken from a hanged man - also, the hand requires someone 
to die.

Another Dark Arts - like Moody's Eye (Harry saw it in the shop) - 
well, I guess the eye had been taken from a human who had died 
violently...

Killing or at least *stealing* is a part of Dark Arts, I think - 
requirement of a body part forcibly taken.

What comes to the Unforgivables...
Absolute control. Torture. Killing. That's all they're for. Death can 
be a mercy - I'd prefer death to Dementor's Kiss to say the very 
least. Better one year happiness than ten of misery.

Absolutely control... horrifying.
Torture? Nothing good for that...
Killing? well - sometimes, though only rarely, death is a mercy.

-- Finwitch