Violence/ was Child Abuse (Draco) (was Re: Christmas present pattern...)

[Chris]

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Tonks:
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> But the problem for me is that I know that this is the dark 
> side of humanity. And I think that we can do better and should do 
> better.  We are the highest form of creation and yet we can not    
> find a way to live in peace with each other.  We can not find a way 
> to treat each other with good will.  That is what gets me. Humanity 
> as a whole has fallen so short of what it could and IMO should be.

   I agree with you completely. This is one of the reasons I quit 
watching the news. I could literally not stomach another scene of 
what we as humans do to each other. Yes, it boggles us, as it has 
boggled some of the greatest thinkers and philosophers in history. 
And even more sad, it only seems to be getting worse. When we cannot 
perform the simplest acts of kindness for each other, what have we 
become. I could go on and on...

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> What I don't know is how that can  play out once we leave the ivory 
> tower of philosophical speculation and walk out into the street to 
> meet the mugger or axe murder who may be waiting for us there.  I   
> just don't know the answer, but I know the one we have it not the  
> best.

    This is one of the things that puzzles me too. Yes we can read 
these books, we can root for the good guy and boo the bad. We can 
disect and discuss every moral that is written by JKR, and talk about 
how things could be better. Then we shut off our monitors, and head 
back into the real world where life is life and violence is reality. 
You want to know what I hope for? That each of us takes some small 
lesson from this series and applies it somewhere, somehow in our 
daily lives, and tries to make the world a better place. When the 
discussing is finally done, hopefully we have made a difference, at 
least in someone's outlook...

Chris