Draco is Evil and Lame

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 124811




> Arynn:

> 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"

<snipEvilGuys>

I think that you minimize their actions when you say that they've 
made bad choices. It's more than that. A bad choice is deciding to do 
Heroin or run away from home to live with your boyfriend. Deciding to 
kill a race of people whether Jews or Muggleborn is evil. People like 
the real individuals that you've mentioned and HP characters like LV, 
Draco, and maybe Snape are indeed evil.  What else can you call those 
who do evil other than evil? 


> 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)

Ahhh, you're a Buddhist. That explains the pov. While I was raised 
Catholic, I fell into Daoism so I understand where you're coming 
from, but I disagree. I agree that no one is born evil but you can be 
lost to evil. And when you do, you relinquish your membership in 
humanity. LV clearly has been lost to evil and no longer deserves to 
be measured against the standards you would use against other people. 
Draco is a bit of a different case.

I am a teacher and in real life I would not consider a student like 
Draco to be a lost case. A difficult pain in the rear, but someone I 
would at least attempt to turn into a person worth knowing. I don't 
think that's going to happen in series, though. I think Draco serves 
to bring the war into Hogwarts instead of leaving it to the outside 
world and so, for literal reasons I don't think Draco is going to be 
redeemed.

Plus he's a hateful little weasel who's a a whole lot of fun to hate. 
At least for me. ;)

> 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. 


I don't think that Draco was showered with curses purposefully in the 
end of OOTP. I think he just shot his mouth off and the DA acted as 
one, but independently of each other. I don't believe it was actually 
planned in any way. His mouth simply wrote a check his body couldn't 
cash. Maybe he'll learn a lesson out of it. As for physical attack, I 
think students should learn when to use it and not that it is wrong 
to use it at all. And using it to protect a classmate too emotionally 
distraught to protect himself seems like a good time to use some 
violence.

phoenixgod2000