[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco is Evil and Lame

[Arynn Octavia]

No: HPFGUIDX 124778

>Betsy wrote:
But see, it does matter, because you are trying to say Draco is
evil. And yet, he doesn't fit the discription. He doesn't actually
*terrorize* the other students.<
 
Arynn:
There have been kids here in America that have killed them selves and fellow students (e.g. Columbine) who were never physically attacked, but never the less vebally tortured. The schools could do something about fighting, but name calling falls under free speach (unless it's sexually or racially motivated.) 
 
Most kids can (and do) take some teasing, but if you are subject to it too often for too long, people can snap. "Terror" doesn't always mean "physical attack". 
 
But no, I do not think Draco is evil. I don't think humans can be evil. Some people make bad choices based on bad exprirences, but no one is inherintly evil. Some examples of "evil people"
 
Hitler's mother (speculated to be part Jewish) was abusive toward him. Once he was grown he wanted to be an artist and was kicked out of art school. After serving in WW1 he spent time in jail where he was first introduced (by a fellow inmate) to the "arian" mentality. There was no evidence before this time that he had any problem with Jews. (he was even staying in a Jewish run shelter for a while.)
 
Jeff Dhamer was repeatedly sexually abused as a boy.
 
Tom Riddle's father leaft his mother before Tom Jr was born because of his own prjudices. Jr's mother died when he was young and he spent his young life as an unwanted orphan. His whole existance has been built on hate.
 
No one is born bad. These previous men were put into bad situations and choose too be cruel later in life, but there are many people (myself included) that had it just as bad, and have never hurt anyone. I, luckily had some things in my life that I was able to depend on (my parents and my Buddhist faith)
 
Alla:
<snip taling about Draco's treatment of his fellow students>
Does he deserve to have the crap beaten out of him for THAT? Yes, you bet, he absolutely does to me. At the end of GoF Draco absolutely got what he deserved as far as I was concerned. I could do without people stepping over Draco when he was on the floor, but besides that...<

 
Even if someone makes bad choices, they deserve the compassion that all living things are entitled to. No one (Draco included) deserve physical or verbal attack. Even if Draco is an instigator, he should not have been beaten up by Harry and George(or was it Fred?), nor was it okay for Harry and the other DA members to shower them with curses at the end of OotP. It is okay to defend yourself and others, but that went way overboard. As adults it is our job to teach kids that physical attack is NEVER okay. 
 
If everyone followed the old saying "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" the whole planet would be blind and toothless.




--Arynn Octavia (A Lupin Lover)
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