Double standards and believing

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 120970


SSSusan wrote:
"Um.  I'm not sure why my description of who I considered the core
kids at the Hog's Head was used as an example for the issue of whether
we're holding people to a double-standard or not. "

Del replies:
Boo, I'm bad today, I keep getting into elliptic mode.

I'm sorry SSSusan, I never meant to say that you were holding those
double standards. It's just that your explanation of who the core kids
were was so much in synch with what was bothering me that I used it as
an example, but without explaining why I considered it an example,
which was very bad posting, I admit.

Here's the explanation : the core kids are Harry's friends, who are
basically the Weasley kids plus Hermione. They all believe Harry
without questioning, blindly : none of them has ever seen
ressucitated!LV or the DEs. And yet they are supposed to be the kids
who made the best choices. Why? Why is it good *for them only* to
believe their friend blindly? Why is it good *for them only* to follow
their parents? In short : why is it good for them to do things that
other kids have been berated for doing?

Am I making more sense now? I guess I should just have dropped the
quote and gone on with the post. But the two were so logically linked
in my mind that I failed to show that in my post. My apologies.

Del