[HPforGrownups] Re: MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 69127


> DG:
> > And as far as transfiguring Malfoy goes -- there seems to be a bit of
> > moral relativism in PotterLand about such things.  Several times
> > Harry and his cohorts have cast rather gruesome curses on Draco & Co.
> > (especially on their rides home), and we seem to be expected to
> > accept that as jolly joking.

> Darrin
> I don't consider it jolly joking. I consider it self-defense and giving the
> bully a taste of his own medicine.
> Draco and Co, in both GoF and OoP, try to corner Harry by himself or Harry
> and his friends and attack them. Friends of Harry's leap to his defense and
> Draco and Co. get nailed.

Ok, Darrin. That is self-defense. CoS ch7, where Malfoy insults Hermione and 
Ron raises his wand. Is that insult-defense? Want it or not, we tend to 
justify our heroes, but here Ron is counterattacking words with violence.

silmariel