OOP: Something that disturbed me

[Matthew Huston]

No: HPFGUIDX 64919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw"
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:

>>>So it would only have been bad if the charm wasn't mild, but strong?  
I can't buy that.  I noticed that in OoP, people in the Order and on 
the side of Good in general do things that are sneaky, unfair, or just 
plain mean.  Harry's use of the Cruciatus Curse still bothers me, as 
does Sirius's recklessness and encouragement of Harry to break rules 
at school.  All I can say to justify these things is that in times of 
war, people do what they have to do to survive.  Had Marietta told the 
MoM people what she and her peers had been doing all year, the 
consequences would have been very bad.  

I think we'll be seeing more sketchy behavior in books 6 & 7, and I'm 
willing to bet Harry will be a part of that.

--jenny from ravenclaw ************************<<<

Well, it is a touchy subject, to be sure. I think that under the OOtP
storyline, the Order was obviously an underground group. While many of
them had public jobs, their membership in the Order put them in severe
danger.

While Fudge was in his near-psychotic fear of a wizarding coup, if
they had been caught, it meant serious trouble (as we saw one goto
Azkaban). The Order was willing to do anything in their battle to both
stay secret as long as possible, and to fight the forces of evil. Like
someone else wrote, memory charms are not truely harmful, but while it
may be questionable moralisticly, it was a neccesity under
circumstances when there will little or no options left.