Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.

[sienna291973]

No: HPFGUIDX 129936

Katherine:
"I think that it would be nice, after sitting through 6 star
wars movies, 4 of which were gratingly disappointing, that I'd like to
see this story have a slightly different resolution. I'd like to see
the bad guy be the bad guy for once and I'd like to see him 
vanquished."

My own feeling is that this is not what JK Rowling is building 
towards. I also think it raises the question of whether there is 
truly any evil that does not, in some small measure, exist within us 
all.

>From my perspective, Voldemort is evil yes – but the true evil exists 
within the wizarding society, and he has been able to tap into this. 
I don't believe that this can be dealt with by vanquishing the `evil 
one'. I think this POV tends to place `evil' externally to the self 
and I think that's dangerous. Much like Hitler in Nazi Germany. 
Hitler behaved in evil ways, yes, but how does one man cause an 
entire nation to commit a reprehensible crime if there is not 
something preexisting in that society that makes it vulnerable to 
that? Too many times, I think, we are ready to localise the `badness' 
in others rather than in ourselves. It is an argument that suggests 
that if only the 'evil one' is vanquished, then evil will cease to 
exist and I think this leads to societal blindness.

I think it will be more useful for Harry to identify Voldemort's 
humanity than for him to be vanquished without ever having been 
claimed as a product of the society that bred him.

Sienna