HP as Morality Play (was Re: Harry learning from Snape )

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 114777


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> OK, Dzeytoun, this time came. You lost me and I am not being 
> sarcastic at all. :o)
> 
> Could you please explain to me (only please, please without 
yelling) 
> how Harry's ignoring Snape for greater good will be selfish 
> behaviour.
> 
> I am absolutely lost. Suppose in a pure cristian tradition Harry 
> decides to LOVE and FORGIVE his ENEMY and I am not quite sure that 
> Snape can be categorised  100% as his enemy, just absolutely 
> pathetic and damaged human being, who enjoys playing sadist.
> I HONESTLY want to know why you categorise such behaviour as 
selfish.

Actually, I wasn't talking about Harry there.  I was referring to a 
couple of real-life situations where I had to step in and deal with 
extremely messy and complicated affairs that would have been much 
easier on EVERYONE had they been confronted earlier.  But the people 
involved who should have been doing the confronting said "I thought 
it I just ignored it and acted with civility it would be all right."  
As a result, the situations blossomed and deepened to the point that 
multiple people had to become involved in each case, and the cost 
both financially and emotionally to clean up the mess was several 
times what it would have been had they confronted the problem in a 
timely manner.

Dzeytoun
> 
> 
> See, I am not a cristian, therefore in my belief system I don't go 
> as far as love your enemy (I am trying to reach realistic goals in 
> my self-development and this one is not very realistic for me), but 
> I am most certainly trying not to hate my enemies and hopefully 
> forgive them. What's wrong with that?