Is Peter evil? was Re: Is Percy A Spy?

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No: HPFGUIDX 111354

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> 
> wrote:
> > Remember a couple of thousand of posts ago, or maybe more, the 
big 
> > discussion was whether casting Unforgivables did something to the 
> > one who cast them. 

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> 
> Jen: Yeah, except I don't want to think of Lupin & Sirius as evil 
> because they were willing and able to kill Peter in POA! If we use 
> the logic that anyone who is willing to kill another is evil, then 
> in a time of war that would pretty much include everyone. I'm sure 
> Snape is intimately familiar with the AK curse, but I don't think 
of 
> him as evil either.
> 
> I guess you could say the Cedric/Peter situation isn't a good 
> analogy because Cedric was completely innocent and no threat to 
> anyone when he was killed. Peter the betrayer was a different case. 
> Even though unarmed (like Cedric), at the time Sirius/Lupin 
> threatened him Peter was a *future* risk if left alive. Still, it 
> bothered me just a little with how comfortable Sirius & Lupin were, 
> casually rolling up their sleeves to off Peter. I know it's naive 
to 
> think in a time of war people don't take matters into their own 
> hands on occasion. But the war was over!! That was a personal war.
>> Jen Reese

imamommy:

I never actually saw the movie, but there was a film with Ashley Judd 
called "Double Jeopardy," where the woman's husband faked his own 
death, framed his wife, took their son and ran off with her best 
friend.  While in prison the woman learns about the concept of double 
jeopardy:  She can't be punished for the same crime twice.  So when 
she is able to be paroled, she goes looking for the (insert favourite 
expletive here) so she *can* kill him, since she's already lost 
everything anyway and she's had nothing but time to focus on what 
this man had done to her.  

THis bears a lot of resemblance to Sirius:  Wormtail got his friends 
killed, then frames him up for the murder and fakes his own death.  
Sirius goes to prison, and loses any chance of a relationship with 
Harry.  I'm not going to say he was right, but I do get where he was 
coming from.

Lupin, spineless Lupin.  Why not suggest an alternative? 

imamommy