What are Dark Arts? - More LINKS

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 91132

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> wrote:
> 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

bboy_mn:

Well, I've been collecting some links on the subject of Dark Magic
too. I haven't found the link that I consider the definitive link (one
of my own), but here are several more links that might help in the
discussion.

Dark Magic

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79252

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79014

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/76645

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/53574

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/52538

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/53529

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/53527

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/46104

The summary of my position is that Dark Magic is dark because there is
some corrosive aspect to it. In some form, in some sense, all dark
magic is destructive and consumptive. It comsumes people, and essenses
that it has no right to. In a more spiritual sense, it is corrosive to
the soul of the person who uses it. Look at the Voldemmort rebirth
potion; it took Harry's blood, Peter's hand, and the bones of
Voldemort's father. Those are certainly destructive ingredients. 

The posts above will explain it in greater detail, and will provide
you with may counter arguments to my opinion.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn