CHAPT. DISCUSSION: Chapter 25, The Beetle At Bay

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No: HPFGUIDX 111981

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> Potioncat:
> Well, look at this differently.  Someone in your child's school 
> commits a crime.  Your neighbor, instead of turning the criminal 
in, 
> blackmails the criminal.  The crime is no longer beining commited, 
> but the criminal is not only not arrested, no one knows about it.
> 
> How would you feel about that?  Because this is fiction, we can 
> cheer when the good guy pulls one over on the bad guy, and not 
think 
> too much about it.
> 
> Theotokos replies:
> 
> I thought I sent this message already then I see it in Drafts.  
oops.
> Okay, I understand (sort of) your position.  However, as has been 
pointed out, these are KIDS (not shouting, just emphasizing).  To 
compound that, these KIDS do not have a great track record for being 
listened to.  Who would believe them?  > 


Potioncat:
I don't really have any objection to what Hermione has done, 
myself.  It's just that it is a Slytherin thing to do and we react 
to it a certain way because it is Hermione and not Pansy Parkinson.  
DD is very Slytherin in his approach to things.  Sometimes I think 
the overall opinion is: If the good guy does it, it's OK.  But if 
the bad guy does it, it isn't OK.

I keep changing my own reaction as I go between "within this story" 
and "in the real world."
Potioncat