Merope is pitiful was Re: In defense of Molly + Merope comments

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> Susan McGee
> So Romilda Vane is a rapist too for trying to give Harry a love 
potion?

If she wanted to do more than steal a few kisses or hold hands with 
Harry then yes, as far as I'm concerned she would be. Love potions 
are the magical equivelent of the date rape drug and that just 
shouldn't be messed with.

> Then she makes a great leap of hope and faith, and stops her 
control 
> of him. She stops drugging him. He of course abandons her. She is 
> reduced to utter abject penury, and has no where to go except to a 
> muggle orphanage. She dies in abject poverty, grief, loss and 
> dejection.
> 
> Yes, she is indeed to be pitied.

She has had any number of bad things happen to her, things that I 
wouldn't wish on anyone. But that is true of just about any evil 
person on the planet. There are very few people who are evil in a 
vacumn. I've done work with prison inmates in the past and I can tell 
you they are filled with stories just as dark as Merope's and they 
turned around and spread that darkness to other people just as she 
spread her own darkness to Tom Sr. She is sad, pathetic and weak.

But so is just about every other evil person on the planet.

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