Conspiracies and re-assessments

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 111950

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, caesian <caesian at y...> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2004, at 3:25 PM, pippin_999 wrote:

Caesian:
> Pippin, you make an articulate case again.  I am reminded of a 
> quotation from Dr. M.L. King that goes something like this:
> 
>   "In the end, what we remember is not the words of our enemies, 
but the 
> silence of our friends".
> 
> However, Lupin would 
> have been a better man if he had looked up from his book and 
objected.  
> No one disagrees on this point.  Especially not Lupin himself.

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Geoff:

I am also reminded very much of Edmund Burke's observation:

"The only thing necessary of evil to triumph is for good men to do 
nothing." 

There is also Quirrell's interesting twist on this:

"There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to 
see it" (PS "The Man with Two Faces" p.211 UK edition)

There are times when we need to have some power - even the power of 
courage - to face up to evil. This was very obvious in the UK in the 
late 1930s when the rising evil of Hitler was faced by appeasement 
which only increased his megalomania. But this is perhaps more 
applicable to Voldemort than the situation with James and Snape....

Geoff
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heritage West Somerset Railway at:
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