[HPforGrownups] Double standards and believing

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No: HPFGUIDX 120964

In a message dated 1/1/2005 3:21:54 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:
 
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Cho learns to think by herself and doesn't do as her parents wish :  good.
Percy learns to think by himself and decides not to follow in  his
family's decisions :  bad.
<Snip>
The Trio is asking the rest of the future DA to believe  Harry on his word, 
and yet Hermione absolutely refuses to believe  Luna <snip>, when 
Luna mentions Fudge's army of heliopaths, even though there 
are plenty of eye-witness accounts according to Luna. A
nice little  lesson in how hard it is to believe in what we don't
naturally tend to  believe in.

Del




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Chancie:
 
I think for the most part, the reason there seem to be "double  standards" is 
not
the actions taken in developing your beliefs, but the ending result.  Percy
did in fact turn on his family to do what he thought was right but he was 
wrong, not because he did what he believed was right, but that he  believed
was right ended up being wrong.  (Did that make since?)
 
And too, as far as Hermione knows Luna is just some crazy girl  that she 
met on a train. (If you were walking down the street and  some crazy looking 
person
told you that George Bush had an  army of Tap Dancing Whales, 
and was getting ready to spring them on the next person who  rounded 
the next corner so that he could test them out before sending them to  Iraq.
Would you believe them??)  She's talking about Fudge having an  army of 
heliopaths, and they aren't even real (as far as we know right now at lest) 
so how can he have an army of them? Harry on the other hand, has  been 
around Hermione since they first started Hogwarts. Hermione knows him 
very well, (I'm sure she'd know if he were lying to her) and Voldemort is 
a VERY real threat.  No one knew exactly what happened to him after  trying 
to kill Harry.  Why couldn't he come back?  I think in this  case of 
believing, 
its more than just the message that matters, but the credibility  of the 
messenger.  
 
Chancie


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