Double standards and believing

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 121048


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> wrote:

Meri: 
> Here I think the issue should not be sticking to one's 
> convictions, but more along the lines of what the character values. 
> Percy, OTOH, puts his career and personal ambitions ahead 
> of his family. He insults his father, ignores his mother and all 
> because, like Fudge, holding on to his job is most important to him. 
> I applaud Percy for sticking to his guns and doing what he thought 
> was right. But what he did was for his own personal gain. 

Geoff:
Percy has got every right to hold his own opinions, but,,,,
that does /not/ give him the right to rubbish his father's opinions, to cause great distress 
to Molly, to attempt to turn Ron against Harry, to be a sycophant when Crouch tries to 
humiliate both Dumbledore and Harry at the Ministry hearing........
 
Del: 
> > Draco doesn't question his family's traditions : bad.
 
Meri: 
> Ron might not initially question his family's values, but he 
> does modify them a bit. The Weasleys have passed down the some of 
> the same prejudices to their children (about werewolves and giants, 
> for instance) but he has come to learn the truth about these beings. 
> He is willing to learn from others, something Draco doesn't seem to 
> be that big on. Plus it isn't bad that Draco doesn't question his 
> father, it is that what his father teaches him is bad. 


Geoff:
Draco has no siblings and has had little contact with anyone other that Lucius' friends - 
the Crabbes and Goyles. So he has little in the way of a benchmark against which he can 
his behaviour,

 
Meri: 
This is a convention that happens in the real world, too. For 
> instance, millions, well billions of people profess faith in God, an 
> afterlife of some kind and many other things that are accepted as 
> mainstream religion, things for which there is no factual basis. 

Geoff:
As a Christian I would disagree strongly with you over that, looking at the historical facts 
about Christ,


Meri: 
> First off, Harry being a parselmouth should have anything do 
> do with anything. Being a parselmouth does not make one evil and 
> Harry did not choose to have this ability. 


Geoff;
Agreed. But the fact is that being a Parselmouth has a history of being a talent of folk who 
are allied to Slytherin and his beliefs, so I can understand that it would cause folk to take a 
long look at Harry...