Conspiracies and re-assessments

[N. Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 112125

Naama <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> I agree that James' abuse of Snape is true cruelty,and as such, 
> evil. However, a single evil deed doesn't show a person to be 
> evil, right? 
> Everybody has cruel, sadistic streaks in them, that may surface 
> at certain circumstances. I think that an evil person (per JKR, 
> also) is one who isn't concerned about those tendencies, doesn't
> try to fight them. The ultimate evil, as I said above, is to 
> consciously choose to let the cruel tendencies reign. 


Tonks here:

I do not agree that EVERYBODY has cruel, sadistic streaks in them. 
Not everyone. Everyone is capable of evil or (sin), but this is not 
the same as being cruel and sadistic!!  Can you honesty see Harry 
doing something so stupid as to, as you say, "pants" someone. (since 
I am 150 years only, this never happened when I was in school, and I 
never heard the term until now.)

It is true, as I have said in a much earlier post, that the ultimate 
act of evil is to choose time and again to act in cruel, sadistic 
and evil way. To turn more and more to the dark side and to prefer 
that to the light, so that you become something close to Evil itself 
is the worst thing a human can do.  It is the only unforgivable act 
of evil. And this is what makes TR into LV.

Tonks_op