Dark Magic and Evil (WAS: Grindelwald and evil)

[brainbanana <Waffle26@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52511

> bboy_mn:
> In the first paragraph of what remains after I substantially cut 
your
> post. You explore the nature of good and evil using the search for
> immortality as an example. I have to assume your implication is, if
> Dumbledore and Voldemort both search for a source of immortality, 
why
> is it that we perceive one as good and the other as evil?
>  

Was Voldemort seeking immortality, or was he seeking to have a body 
again?  I may be wrong, but it was my understanding that he was 
trying to recover from his attempt to kill Harry and end his "half- 
life" or weakened state, and have a body again by using the stone.  
In a sense he was seeking mortality.  By doing this through "evil" 
means (unicorn slaying, blood letting, etc.) it would be truly dark 
magic, because he had to come back from death (or maybe near death).  
Perhaps Flamel used the stone to grant continued life or possibly 
slowed aging.  Not the same as returning from the dead.  It was said 
that the stone could grant wealth and immortality, but was that what 
Voldemort was trying to accomplish?  Maybe the power of the stone 
could grant other things.  At the end of GoF he didn't achieve 
eternal life, but in a sense returned from the dead.
 
-'nanner