What are Dark Arts?

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 91108

Potioncat asked:
Just about any of the magic the students are being taught could be
used for good or evil. So, what are Dark Arts? Does anyone have a
good feel for this? Does anyone have a canon reference about this?

Tom:
I don't have a lot of time to respond to this in depth, so I'm going 
to cheat and send along some links (with some decent threads that 
follow) to older discussions in which this is hashed out with some 
additional attention to detail.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/52468
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/52478
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/53565
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/82138

I wouldn't necessarily say that I have a *good* feel for it all, but 
maybe just a regular old normal feel, or at least a position on a 
feel for it. ;-)

-Tom