Marietta and Hermione (was JKR's Messages ) (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

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"delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> I guess you find *everyone* evil then, because 
> *everyone* I know made a bad moral judgement
> one day or the other.

No, that doesn't mean everyone is evil, but it does mean nobody is 
100% good, or to put it another way, some people are more evil than 
others. 

> You mean "the best she could was not nearly
> good enough FOR YOU". 

I was the one talking so you deduced I meant not good enough for me, 
very good, you are absolutely correct, congratulations. It's just 
that, well
., who else could I be possibly talking for? I confess to 
being a bit confused, you don't seem shy about making moral 
judgments, like what a horrible terrible person Hermione is for not 
allowing Umbridge to torture Harry to death, but when I also make a 
moral judgment you object, and in capital letters too.   

> Basically what you're saying is "what I like
> is right and good and what I don't like
> is evil and wrong"

I plead guilty, I like stuff that is right and dislike stuff that is 
wrong. From your response I take it that you have very different 
ideas.

> Are you a god? 

It is my experience that rhetorical questions usually tend to be 
rather vapid and foolish, don't you agree?

> Do you really expect everyone to believe 
>the word of a single teenage boy? 

Dumbledore said Harry was telling the truth, Fudge said Harry was a 
lying brat, if you knew nothing about either of them and were 
meeting Dumbledore and Fudge for the first time how long would it 
take you to figure out who was smarter, and more honest, and who 
just had more gravitas? On a very bad day it would take me about 45 
seconds to figure it out, if it takes you significantly longer then 
you have a serious problem. 

> If JKR titled the LAST chapter of OoP "The 
> Second War Begins", then it means that
> there was NO LV war going on during 
>the rest of the book. 

Are you really sure you want to pursue this line of argument, do you 
really want to try to make the case that the war in Iraq is not 
really a war because the silly politicians in Washington have not 
declare it so, are you ready to say that the Vietnam war was not a 
war and the Korean war was not a war? If you really and truly want 
to debate this I am perfectly willing to do so, but as a friend let 
me whisper something in your ear, I think you would be wise to look 
elsewhere for your arguments. 

Eggplant